Elizabeth Strout Quotes
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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I don't need adult supervision.
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.
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You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
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I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.
