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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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 need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.
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'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.
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I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.
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My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.
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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
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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.
