Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I'm a good driver.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?
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I'm good at what I do.
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Use coconut oil to remove makeup, and do it before going to bed.
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I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
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People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.
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I seem to be good at asking for trouble.
