Tedesco Bergen Quotes

In the streets outside everything was still. The hour before five was the only time of day this city slept. In my earlier life, during the twelve years I had lived in Bergen I used to stay up at night as often as I could. I never reflected on this, it was just something I liked and did. It had started as a student ideal, grounded in a notion that in some way night was associated with freedom. Not in itself but as a response to the nine-to-four reality which I, and a couple of others, regarded as middle-class and conformist. We wanted to be free, we stayed up at night. Continuing with this had less to do with freedom than a growing need to be alone. This, I understood now, I shared with my father. In the house where we lived he had a whole studio apartment to himself and he spent more or less every evening there. The night was his. ~ Karl Ove Knausgaard

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing. ~ Polly Bergen

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. ~ Bergen Evans

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. ~ Candice Bergen

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011. ~ Peter L. Bergen

I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I? ~ Edgar Bergen

Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else. ~ Polly Bergen

It takes a long time to become a person. ~ Candice Bergen

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination. ~ David Bergen

I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film. ~ Bob Bergen

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there. ~ David Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. ~ Edgar Bergen

She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come true: she had been attracted to an object that was beautiful, and she had become spellbound, and then its shape had changed, and what had appeared beautiful had turned ugly. ~ David Bergen

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself. ~ Candice Bergen

I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be. ~ David Bergen

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know. ~ Polly Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels. ~ David Bergen

The heavens were inexhaustible, it had rained every day since the beginning of September and except for a couple of hours I hadn't seen the sun for what would soon be eight months. The streets were deserted apart from a few people who rushed past hugging the walls, in Bergen it was vital to get from A to B as fast as you could. ~ Karl Ove Knausgaard

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing. ~ Peter Bergen

I like characters who are contradictory. ~ David Bergen

raiding parties and pirate crews. This is in stark ~ Lars Bergen

Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill. ~ Bergen Evans

It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes. ~ David Bergen

Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. "You always have to take yourself with you," she said. And now, bending towards her mother, Hope wondered if in death you were finally able to run away from yourself. This might be death's gift. She knew that the thought wasn't terribly profound, but she was moved by the notion of completion and of escape. ~ David Bergen

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. ~ Bergen Evans

Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible. ~ Peter Bergen

We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous. ~ Edgar Bergen

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation ... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media. ~ Peter L. Bergen

Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet ... Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English, ~ Kate Atkinson

I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remember going out to dinner with my mom afterward and reading the souvenir program like crazy! ~ Erich Bergen

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now. ~ Candice Bergen

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me. ~ Polly Bergen

Bury the shit when you can and fess up if you can't. ~ Margaux Bergen

As a mother, I am a backup singer in every way. There's never been a shred of competitiveness. I've always been thrilled whenever Chloe was front and center. ~ Candice Bergen

I saw several actresses play the part. I did not in fact, as far as I know, do anything that any of the other actresses did. I don't think actresses do that. I think that what we do is we see a role as a role, we don't see it as a person. We look at the role and think, 'What can I, as an actor, bring to that part? ~ Polly Bergen

The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet. ~ Polly Bergen

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. ~ Bergen Evans

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors ... ~ Bob Bergen