Elizabeth Wein Quotes
I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
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I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watchingyou vomit them out upon my face.
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So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
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To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
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I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.
