Elizabeth Wein Quotes
For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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Perhaps, I thought, the dead god gets folded into the existence of the new god, the way a dormant genetic variation can exist within an organism’s DNA—hanging about like an actor’s understudy until the right environmental conditions give it expression and—hey presto—suddenly a bacteria is heat resistant, our Chloe gets her big break on Broadway and a sniper for hire gets an unexpected half a meter of cold steel through the chest. Perhaps
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That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
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I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.
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For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.
