Elizabeth Wein Quotes

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• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Things

• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

  

  Dan Severson
  • People
  • You
  • Church

• The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Death
  • Waiting
  • Measure

• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Women
  • Desire

• A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Kiss
  • Feel Good
  • Tiara

• We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

  

  Sandy Duncan
  • Want
  • Greed
  • Raised

• In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Influence

• Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Income
  • Nigeria

• A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Energy
  • Failure
  • Persons

• Targets don't fight crime.

  

  Theresa May
  • Fight
  • Crime
  • Targets

• Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Obscurity

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• If she could breathe then it could be heard, but she was breathless.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Breathe
  • Breathless

• If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Sense
  • Common

• As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.

  

  Susan Shreve
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Solitary

• Careless talk costs lives.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Costs
  • Careless