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Elizabeth Berg Quotes

It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Friend Dance Doing Table She See

Once I got to the U.S., and I realized we weren't going to go back to Britain, I was ready to commit to starting a bigger life here.

Life Back Ready Go Starting Bigger

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Anatole Broyard

Life Self Feel Debate I Can Human

Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.

Future Science Adventure World Build

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

Truth Saying Point Anything No Point

The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Anniversary Me Honor University

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

Tough Class Working Background Come

I believe that our country is going in the wrong direction, and I have a very strong desire to help out in any way that I can.

Michael T. Flynn

Believe Strong Direction Help I Can

It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become a parent, you're like, 'Whoa! It's hard work.' No wonder your parents always tell you off! They've done a lot for you.

Work Hard Work Parents Parent You

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

Woman Strong Independent Woman My Own

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

Los Angeles Morality Little Like Los

I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.

Time Hat People Me Lady Long

All I have to do is to do my thing. I don't have to talk about it like, 'Oh, I'm representing for Asians.' I'm just... doing it.

Doing Talk Asians Just Like Oh

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