Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.
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I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
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I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.
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I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
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I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
