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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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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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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None of us are ever equipped, for general purposes, to perceive reality in all of its forms. The pyramid gestalts can do this, and we help the pyramid gestalts perform this feat. But as a rule we must pick and choose. There is too much for any consciousness to digest except those so highly developed that even I know little of them.
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For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.
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I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.
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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.
