Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
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My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!
