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 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 faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
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It's an understanding. We don't talk about it. There's no bullshit that goes on. We've been fortunate enough to play for 12 years and learn as a band, learn our instruments, and we've stuck and we've worked really hard at it.
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No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.
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People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
