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.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• 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.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• 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.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • America
  • Movement

• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Study
  • Human
  • Behavior

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • Think
  • Computers

• 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.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • True
  • Difference
  • Research

• There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Connection

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Different
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Unique

• We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Food

• On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Day
  • See
  • Gloomy

• Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

  

  Epictetus
  • Power
  • Rest

• Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

  

  William Shatner
  • Audience
  • Mark
  • Approval

• I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Home
  • Marriage
  • Realized