Elizabeth Wein Quotes
I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
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You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.
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Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.
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I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.
