Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket.

Elizabeth Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.

Amy Cuddy

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When I think of Kansas, I think of family.

Trai Byers

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If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

Tom Sturridge

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I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

Roger Moore

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When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'

Josh Gondelman

StoneSaidLettersWillBendBoston

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Jonathan Kozol

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Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

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I'm a huge fan of the '70s. I'm obsessed with the music of that time.

Chiara Ferragni

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In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

Colleen Atwood

ChicagoKnowingNeedDancersGoing

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

Bobby Keys

MusicShoesCultureBeginningMan

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Penn Jillette

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