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.

Elizabeth Wein

• Daughter
• No Doubt
• Heartbreaking

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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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• 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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• 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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• Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

  

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• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  

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• Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.

  

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• Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

  

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• We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

  

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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.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Daughter
  • No Doubt
  • Heartbreaking