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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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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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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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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When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast
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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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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
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It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.
