Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
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There comes a time or a moment when you know in which direction you're going to go. I know it happened to me when I was quite young.
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There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.
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I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
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I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.
