Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

Elizabeth Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

John Burns

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If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Jerome Lawrence

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I have a husband, and babysitters; I find it hard. I find it amazing how single moms do it.

Melissa Peterman

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You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

Robert Stack

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Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.

Robert Jeffress

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I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

Michael Hirst

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A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Sholom Aleichem

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I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.

Ruby Dee

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I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's when it starts getting criminal. It's like you're working hard, and you're not receiving. In any other business, people would be standing before Congress. They have antitrust laws against this kind of behavior.

Jay-Z

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My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

Diane von Furstenberg

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I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

Dee Rees

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I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Chris Wallace

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