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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As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're paying for.
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I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
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My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.
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Music stops you from thinking.
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The catsuit would hug her frame like steam on glass.
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Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.
