Elizabeth Strout Quotes
I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
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I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.
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To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
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I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.
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'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
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I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.
