Elizabeth Wein Quotes
I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
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Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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A million eyes, a million boots in line, Without expression, waiting for a sign.
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I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.
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And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
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If Harry Connick Jr. wants to call me and ask me to join his band, that would be fine with me. I'm happy, but if he calls, I would pick up.
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I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
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My hair is very straight - people always think that I've ironed it when I get to set.
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If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences are pressured by empirical investigation of complex phenomena. I suspect that even when you control for variables of individual laziness, you'll see that what you see before you masses of black poor people unwilling to work hard to get better will not be as simply concluded as you might at first believe. Continue your good work.
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I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.
