Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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But I think we need the international market.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
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There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.
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I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
