Elizabeth Berg Quotes
In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
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Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.
