Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
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I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.
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I don't interest myself that much.
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
