Elizabeth Berg Quotes
Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.
Quotes to Explore
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.
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I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.
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We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth. (p. 17)
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If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to passion between being successful and being a philanthropist.
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Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.
