Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

Elizabeth Strout

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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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Think
  • Education
  • Problems

• The brain abhors discrepancies.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Brain
  • Abhors

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• 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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Live
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Home
  • Remember

• Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Understand
  • Did
  • Rehab

• 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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • American
  • English
  • Born

• I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Great
  • Job
  • Think

• I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • God
  • Learning
  • California

• I don't need adult supervision.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Need
  • Adult
  • Supervision

• 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.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Live
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Together
  • Change

• If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Great
  • Important
  • New York

• If you like playing basketball, you play basketball. If you like playing golf, you play golf.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Golf
  • Basketball

• The cost of war impacts all of us - both in the human cost and the cost that's being felt frankly in places like Flint, Michigan, where families and children are devastated and destroyed by completely failed infrastructure because of lack of investment.

  

  Tulsi Gabbard
  • War
  • Human
  • Families

• I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Game
  • Simple

• As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

  

  John Singleton
  • Character
  • Energy

• Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Value
  • Humility

• I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

  

  Elizabeth Strout