Elizabeth Crook Quotes
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
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'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.
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I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
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It was no more nor less than true. You do things by doing things, not by not doing them. No more crazy upsidedownness, he resolved. Good was better than bad. Good environments are better than bad environments.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.
