Elizabeth Wein Quotes
The anticipation of what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
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My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I just wanted to do something positive. I feel like music was the talent that I had, I just had to tap into it.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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The anticipation of what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.
