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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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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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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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Gail Devers -
You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.
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I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times that I can honestly say I was nervous. The first was when I knew Mel Brooks was in the audience, and the second was when Sid Caesar came.
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The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.
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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
