Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
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Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
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When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.
