Elizabeth Strout Quotes
In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.Elizabeth Strout
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
Gail Porter -
When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
Venus Williams -
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
Edmund White -
Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
Hanna Rosin -
There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt -
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
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When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
Katrina Lake -
I've always loved acting, and I do respect the craft.
Anthony Santos Aventura -
There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.
Len Goodman -
You see a whole bunch of different looks in the NBA. Guys, like LeBron, have stylists now, and they do their own thing. Then you have Russell Westbrook, whose style is a little different. Every guy is wearing outfits to show their personality.
Chandler Parsons -
President Trump ran on protecting U.S. jobs and renegotiating unfair trade policies - those policies strengthen labor laws around the world.
Jan Schakowsky -
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
Andrew Lincoln
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I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.
Brad Carson -
When people think of the South Side of Chicago, they don't think about where I'm from. It was sort of a pocket: this idyllic community of black people who took care of each other, knew each other, spent time with each other.
Lena Waithe -
I'm done with 'Biggest Loser.'
Jillian Michaels -
There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.
Frank Knight -
My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way.
Christen Press -
My position's always been we need to build on successes within ACA, fix the problems.
Brad Schneider
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I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.
Coco Rocha -
And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
Mel Tillis -
It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].
Zachary Quinto -
It's easy to be an educated fool.
R. C. Sproul -
We just believed in each other, got defensive stops when we needed them and executed our offense. We were able to make something happen.
Allen Iverson -
In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.
Elizabeth Strout