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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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 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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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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Barbados: 'A proper bum island this Barbados....It's a unique sort of scenery, very ugly, & I didn't take much to the coloured population, who are revolting.' (26-27 March 1920)
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I'm a big fan of country.
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.
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What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.
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Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.
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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.
