Elizabeth Berg Quotes
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.
Quotes to Explore
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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My dad was an English professor.
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I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'
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Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.
