Elizabeth Wein Quotes
I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
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One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.
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Labels are for cans, not people.
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The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.
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People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.
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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.
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Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.
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Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
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Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.
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I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.
