Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.
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When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.
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You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!
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In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.
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I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
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Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
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Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.
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In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
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To play this iconic character from this historically wonderful series of books - who wouldn't take that opportunity and be happy about it? I'm happy to be Hodor forever.
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I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.
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For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.
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It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.
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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
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I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.
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High time they put the RAF in kilts.
