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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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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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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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
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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.
