Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.
Quotes to Explore
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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In terms of being a vessel for female empowerment and a role model for young girls, I take it on gladly and seriously, but I hope people remember that I'm just a regular person, and I'm not going to be perfect.
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I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.
