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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As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.
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It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.
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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.
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It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.
