Elizabeth Wein Quotes
I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
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That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element.
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I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.
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Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.
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St. Louis has a great startup scene and a vibrant business community.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
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We have nothing to crow about, our home record has been atrocious, we've got a long ways to go before we feel we're on top.
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I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.
