Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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Don’t you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise?
