Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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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.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.
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I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.
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When you speak the truth, people realize that.
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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
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I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
