Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
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OK, David. Here we are on the train to Exeter, to the football club of which I am joint chairman, and where we're doing a charity show with Michael Jackson. You and I have both demonstrated some of the hidden powers of the mind and it would be interesting to hear, David, how you explain some of your incredible achievements.
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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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Still falls the Rain - Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side:He bears in His Heart all wounds, - those of the light that died,The last faint sparkIn the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark...
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It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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There's thieves among us Painting the wallsAll kinds of lies, and liesI never told it all
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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.
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I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
