Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.
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By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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Don't talk it, walk it.
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So wrote Pater, calling an art-for-art's sake muezzin to the faithful from the topmost turret of the ivory tower.
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Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.
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Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
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The Loden in Vancouver, where I stayed when I was filming 'The Arrow,' is a family-run hotel with a fantastic restaurant, great facilities, and brilliant people.
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Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.
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Equality comes in different forms, and it is a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.
