Carol Berg Quotes
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
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Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
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If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings.
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Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
