Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.
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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.
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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.
