Elizabeth Berg Quotes
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
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If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?
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I could hear a pop and a click in my knee and I just went down. I tried to get up and carry on but the pain was relentless and I had to come off.
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Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
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In terms of how I understand the online world, it doesn't just work in the old-fashioned way. You're not going to see billboards and a bunch of commercials. It's all viral.
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The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
