Elizabeth Berg Quotes
A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food.Elizabeth Berg
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria -
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
Joanne Rowling -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
Ramez Naam
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
Ted Deutch -
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
Zack Wheat -
Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
La India -
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
Tana French -
Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Tarja Halonen
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
Jack Keane -
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid -
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T -
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Ferdinand Porsche -
I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
Daniel Bryan -
I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
Earle Combs
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
Nadine Gordimer -
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
Louise Brown -
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
Mark Rydell -
I had a really typical, suburban, middle-class upbringing. The only thing out of the ordinary was being one of the few Chinese families in town.
Anna Sui -
It doesn't matter how much you flirt the whole day, at night you'll always end up thinking about the one you truly love.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food.
Elizabeth Berg