Elizabeth Strout Quotes
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
Elizabeth Strout
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
J. Michael Straczynski
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko
I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
Victoria Osteen
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
Floyd Abrams
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
Gavin O'Connor
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong
I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
Natalie Zea
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
Walter Legge
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
Kate Bush
I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, 'What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?', and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, 'Is there hope?'
Margaret Atwood
A day to God is a thousand years,
Men walk around with a thousand fears.
The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.
Flannery O'Connor
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
Elizabeth Strout
