Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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A half a Vicodin and a Bahama Mama...makes for a bitchin' day!
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I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.
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Aaron Rodgers - I love the way he scrambles and how he plays the game - he always makes great decisions with the ball.
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You know that you wouldn't take a baby on a plane without diapers, so when you leave your house, take care of you, like you would a baby. Don't leave your house without packing some healthy things.
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I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.
