Elizabeth Strout Quotes
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.
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Writers are so important.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
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There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.
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The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
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The less we show our love to a woman,Or please her less, and neglect our duty,The more we trap and ruin her surelyIn the flattering toils of philandery.
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.
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I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
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If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
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I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I've ever done that people have legitimate questions about. But I think that it's fair to say there's been a concerted effort to convince people like that young man of something, nobody's quite sure what, but of something.
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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
