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.
Wallace Shawn -
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
Hal Holbrook -
I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
Daniel Bryan -
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 -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston -
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
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
Ted Yoho -
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 -
Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
Latrell Sprewell -
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 -
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 -
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
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Eckhart Tolle -
Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
Kim Wilde -
As I was motivatin' over the hill I saw Maybellene in a Coup de Ville A Cadillac arollin' on the open road Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford The Cadillac doin' about ninety-five She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side Maybellene
Chuck Berry -
I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career.
Andrew Whitworth -
As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.
Jay Parini
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My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.
Peter Guber -
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
Albert Camus -
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.
John James Audubon -
In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.
Bessel van der Kolk -
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
Julia Glass -
I think writers are born, not made.
Elizabeth Berg