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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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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Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
