Elizabeth Berg Quotes

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

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• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Choice
  • Content
  • Blessings

• I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Child

• When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Trying
  • School
  • Age

• The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Like
  • Story
  • Elements

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Brother

• I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Love
  • Want
  • Writer

• I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.

  

  Imelda May
  • Best
  • Try
  • Normal

• I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • God
  • Enjoy

• Being a fatherIs quite a bother,But I like it, rather.

  

  Ogden Nash

• My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Inspiration
  • Poetic
  • Objection

• The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • People

• One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • War
  • Culture
  • Respect

• If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Dream
  • Planning

• I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

  

  John Podhoretz

• When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

  

  Elizabeth Berg