Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
-
I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
-
I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
-
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
-
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
-
Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
-
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
-
ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
-
I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
-
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
-
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
-
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
-
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
-
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
-
When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
-
My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
-
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
-
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
-
The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China.
-
If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all other orders.
-
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
-
So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW.
