Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
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Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
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I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.
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I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.
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I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.
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Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.
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I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.
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So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.
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Nothing beats hard work.
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There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
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These days I just can't seem to say what I mean. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.
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Spiderwebs joined together can catch a lion.
