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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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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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Why do something that's already been done?
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I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.
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The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.
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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
