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 money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

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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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• My favorite drink is sake.

  

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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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• 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 never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

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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