Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.

Elizabeth Strout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1956

Topics

WorkSuccessI AmNew YorkPeople

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Robbins

ExistenceGetFiveStillSevenDid

I do think observing is important in learning.

Roger Deakins

LearningThinkImportantObserving

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Michael Jordan

LifeGoodEffortGood ThingsGame

I try to be honest in what I do and in everything I do. I try to be honest with my family.

Mo Farah

FamilyTryEverythingHonest

I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's game,' and they keep trying to make young songs. But you don't know the slang - it changes every day, and you're just visiting. So you're trying to be something you're not, and the audience doesn't buy into that.

Jay-Z

DayManPeopleStartGameThink

I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.

Dominique Dawes

GirlMyselfCelebrateAppreciate

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.

Deval Patrick

MotherLiveTimeSisterThreeSide

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

Denis Villeneuve

LoveWordsBookLanguageLovedBeen

The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one.

Chester Brown

PeopleEndWeirdKnowComingUp

I can't do a Bloody Mary. But I like the idea of them. It's got fresh vegetables in it.

Bobby Cannavale

VegetablesFreshGotIdeaLikeThem

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Aristotle Onassis

SleepSucceedNightYearYouThree

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

Scott Michael Foster

LifeCharacterStepThinkYouBuild

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