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Gertrude Berg
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“Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?”
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“Punctuality is not one of their faults.”
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“Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants — a whole menagerie — and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze ...”
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“By some people the meal itself is a long delay between the appetizer and the dessert.”
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“Passover, I think, will always be my happiest holiday, because no matter how old I'll be, at Passover time I'm always the little girl at my grandma's house.”
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“So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?”
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“When it's all over and the on the air signs go off there isn't a more lost feeling in the world. The wonderful, exciting, even glamorous, studio is now just a room dirty with coffee cartons and cigarette butts.”
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“I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.”
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“It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.”
Gertrude Berg, U.S. radio/TV screenwriter, playwright, producer
(1899 - 1966)
Full name: Gertrude Edelstein Berg.