Elizabeth Berg Quotes
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?
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The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.
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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
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I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
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I wear a lot of dresses and skirts and more ethereal hippie clothes for the day.
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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
