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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Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.
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Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.
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I read all the books for 'Twilight.'
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Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.
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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.
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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.
