Elizabeth Wein Quotes

I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

Elizabeth Wein

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• In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

  

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• I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

  

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• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

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• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  

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• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

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• I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

  

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• I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

  

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• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

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• I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

  

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• I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

  

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• Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

  

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• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  

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• One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

  

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• Young children are not prejudiced against languages, unlike many adults, ... They are not afraid of having a go, of interacting with others linguistically. Later on, their hormones tend to get in the way.

  

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• I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

  

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• I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

  

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• To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

  

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• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  

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• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

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• I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.

  

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• Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

  

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• I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Afraid
  • Arrogant
  • Not Believe