Elizabeth Berg Quotes
If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I began cycling round the Serpentine because it was the only closed route in London where I could ride traffic-free.
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By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.
