Elizabeth Berg Quotes
Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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There is always pressure in football.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.
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There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.
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It’s much easier to give up, than to put a Fight, but fighters are only people that win.
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The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
