Elizabeth Berg Quotes

My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate.

Elizabeth Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1948

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The people of Montana want to send me to Washington - not to bring home the bacon but to slaughter the hog.

Matt Rosendale

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I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.

Simon Schama

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You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

Trisha Yearwood

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It feels nice after a long career as an actor to find your own voice and support that.

Shiri Appleby

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It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Michelle Obama

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On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.

Mitski

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I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.

Lou Barlow

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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

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I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Brad Paisley

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I never really watched much stand-up growing up. I just was not really that into it. But I can say I honestly fell in love with it the second I touched the microphone. It was like this weird thing where it's like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what I'm supposed to do.'

Phoebe Robinson

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There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.

Richard N. Haass

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Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.

Marsha Blackburn

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