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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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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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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Democrats are just as wrong to insist the law is perfect, that the law doesn't have things that need to be fixed, and to pretend that the law did wave a magic wand and make everything in the health care system fixed.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.
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When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
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For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.
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I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
