Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
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I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
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I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.
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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
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I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
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I haven't got a clue about how much I weigh. I do not own any scales. And I have noticed it creates an anger in people who are not skinny. People like to blame their insecurities on other people.
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I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.
