Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
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It's those damn critics again.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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We can't sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?
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Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
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I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn, and I would skip class to shoot my scenes.
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I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
