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.

Elizabeth Strout

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• 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.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Trying
  • You
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Good
  • Why
  • Think

• I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • World
  • Live
  • Hope

• There is nothin' like a dame.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Like
  • Dame
  • Nothin

• My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Mature

• I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Service
  • Born
  • Room

• Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Hair
  • Treat

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Home
  • City
  • Evening

• I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Company
  • Rules

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Community
  • Race
  • Bisexual

• 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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

  

  Feist
  • Death
  • Really
  • London

• 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.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • True
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Fashion
  • Favourite
  • Mary

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Deep
  • Dreams
  • Achieve

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that - fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Play

• Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Age
  • Financial

• I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Real
  • School
  • War

• I am not in a position to enjoy sexual relations.

  

  Philip K. Dick

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Strout