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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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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I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.
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I grew up in Philadelphia.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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Some call me a gangster of love...
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
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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.
