Carol Berg Quotes
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
Quotes to Explore
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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..it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes.. .But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
