Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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My life is not perfect.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
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I'm an extrovert.
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These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
