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 feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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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 mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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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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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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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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Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
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'Don't you want to join us?' I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. 'No, I don't,' I said.
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When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.
