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.
Quotes to Explore
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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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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'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.
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I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is everything. I will strive to create works of art until I die, in the hope that my work will continue to touch the hearts of people even after I have died.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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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.
