Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

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• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

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• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

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• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

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• Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

  

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• For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

  

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• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  

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• I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

  

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• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

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• Writers are so important.

  

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• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

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• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

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• As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

  

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• The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

  

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• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

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• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

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• We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

  

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• It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

  

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• We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

  

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• In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers.

  

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• Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
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