Elizabeth Berg Quotes

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Questions

• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fight

• I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Me

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Truth
  • Problem
  • Stereotypes

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Future

• First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Believe
  • Women
  • I Believe

• Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt with any kind of emotional situation or conflict by doing something concrete and specific. Discussion of cramps and heavy flow at the breakfast table? He was up and out the door to change oil on one of our cars. Coming home in tears for reasons you just didn't want to discuss? He'd go make you a grilled cheese, which he'd probably end up eating. Family crisis brewing in a public place? Bags. Get the bags.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Home
  • Father
  • Kind

• We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading