Elizabeth Wein Quotes
This is what’s so heartbreaking: the fact that I am here, alive, has no doubt given Fernande some grain of hope for her daughter. But the fact that I was there makes me sure there isn’t any.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.
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In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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You shall not covet thy neighbor's wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that?
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Quel che l'huom vede Amor gli fa invisibileE l'invisibil fa vedere Amore.
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The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
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If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
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The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.
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I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.
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Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.
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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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So. How was your week?
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
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Thy light alone like mist o'er mountains driven, Or music by the night-wind sent Through strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
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This is what’s so heartbreaking: the fact that I am here, alive, has no doubt given Fernande some grain of hope for her daughter. But the fact that I was there makes me sure there isn’t any.
