Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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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.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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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.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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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.
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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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.
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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.
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If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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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.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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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.
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Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
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They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
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When another player screws up, I kind of erase it and make a good play.
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My style is not like anyone's. I'm not a typical wrestler.
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
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She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.
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I think writers are born, not made.
