Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
Quotes to Explore
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
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He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, 'with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising'.
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Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.
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My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in
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I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
