Elizabeth Berg Quotes
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.
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This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they've run millions and millions of untrue ads against me.
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Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
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A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
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Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.
