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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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.
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Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.
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I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
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I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.
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I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
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I think writers are born, not made.
