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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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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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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If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
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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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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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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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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.
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Russia and the United States are the biggest nuclear powers, this leaves us with an extra special responsibility. By the way, we manage to deal with it and work together in certain fields, particularly in resolving the issue of the Iranian nuclear programme. We worked together and we achieved positive results on the whole.
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
