Elizabeth Berg Quotes
In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I can do whatever I want.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
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In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
