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 is definitely more rock oriented – Chester comes up with the "kernel" that becomes the songs on his acoustic guitar – so they tend to turn out a bit more guitar rock. They are more riff/vocal focused.
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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
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Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.
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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.
