Elizabeth Strout Quotes
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
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As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
