Elizabeth Berg Quotes
My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
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I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.
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I didn't come out as gay; I came out as I don't really believe in gender.
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My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'
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I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.
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My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.
