Elizabeth Wein Quotes

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Elizabeth Wein

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• Execution

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• Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

  

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• I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

  

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

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• Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

  

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• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
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• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Great
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• I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Sex
  • Write
  • Read

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Together
  • Think
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• I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
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• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Nature
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• Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Life
  • War
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• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

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• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

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• When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.

  

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• In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

  

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• Every fight is a different experience.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Fight

• He never gives up. He just fights until his body can't fight anymore. As an older player, you don't ever want a young player to beat you out.

  

  Andre Caldwell
  • Player
  • Fight
  • Young

• We can fight, and we can disagree, but I'm never going to let you walk away from me thinking I don't love you.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Thinking
  • Fight
  • Disagree

• You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Light
  • Focus
  • Realize

• Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Fight
  • Realize
  • Execution