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.
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
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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.
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
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We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
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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.
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Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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Targets don't fight crime.
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We finally got a quarterback that didn't throw it away. We got to him. That's what we've been doing all year but we just had quarterbacks that just run out of there and throw it away. We hadn't been fortunate enough to get those sacks, but we got them today.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
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I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.
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Careless talk costs lives.
