Elizabeth Berg Quotes
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I'm a political conservative.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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Certain struggles never end.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.
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Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.
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I looked up at my mom, and I was like, 'Well, Mom, uh, when you really think about it, C's aren't really that bad. C's are average.' And I've never seen my mom so upset, to this day. I just saw this flash of fire in her eyes, and she yelled, 'Average? You are never allowed to be average, because you look like me.'
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
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When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.
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He weren't no saint-but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim.'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him.He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing- And went for it thar and then;And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men.
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
