Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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It is always your next move.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
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Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.
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If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
