Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I think writers are born, not made.

Elizabeth Berg

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• I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Story

• Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Society

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Learning
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Help

• To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Good
  • House
  • Question

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • America
  • How

• It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Choices
  • Rights

• 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.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Day

• You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Excitement

• If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Learn
  • Going
  • Others

• In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Silence
  • Sound
  • Tools

• The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Interesting
  • Nice
  • Pain

• The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Live
  • Death
  • Fear

• Yeah, she's heard the war stories ... I tell it all to her. I think one has to, because one wants to know somebody, and one wants to feel that somebody knows one. I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.

  

  Keeley Hawes

• I've learned to keep your mouth shut even when something bad is going on. You never know how someone is going to take something you say. You have to bite the bullet.

  

  Chad Kelly
  • Bad

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• You have to live life to the fullest. I don't want to slow down. I want the giving to be stepped up. So the older I get, the less I will be involved in the business side, the more in the philanthropic side.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I think writers are born, not made.

  

  Elizabeth Berg