Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.
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I felt good going to the line. I shot them all the same. I should iced the game. This one's on me.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.
