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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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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I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
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Sharing is wonderful, but giving - I give, you take - often maintains the power status quo.
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I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
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Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
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At the end of the day, I think people are starting to realize that if you say you stand for equality, it has to be equality across the board. It can't just be equality for people who look like me, are my gender, think or love like me. It has to be equality for everybody.
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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
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When I was four years old I watched the movie every day. I was totally obsessed.
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President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
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I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'
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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.
