Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
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I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.
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Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.
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I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.
