Elizabeth Strout Quotes
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.
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Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market.
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They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
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My parents were very, very, very strict.
