Elizabeth Berg Quotes
If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.
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Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
