Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.
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For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes - homosexuality, sexual disease, and death - about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.
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You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.
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I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
