Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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It may have come into play, it may not have. But it's the principle. You never compromise those rules. It's very disappointing.
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My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.
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You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky's still clear, but the wind's starting to cool off and change direction. You know something's coming, but you don't always know what. That's how things feel to me right now." -Zoey Redbird
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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
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I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.
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You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.
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Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.
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Music is the universal language.
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Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.
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History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
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Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.
