Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

Elizabeth Strout

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Clever

• Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Done
  • Think
  • Crazy

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Real
  • Job

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Real
  • Action
  • Intelligence

• It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Believe
  • Difficult
  • Point

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Earth
  • Professional

• When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Remember

• When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

  

  Michael Palmer
  • Remember
  • Compare
  • Counselor

• It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Gift
  • Million Dollars
  • Gadget

• I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Remember