Elizabeth Berg Quotes
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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America is huge.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I'm old-fashioned that way. I don't believe you turn the president down.
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Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
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Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.
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I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
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One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.
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I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.
