Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.

Elizabeth Strout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

John Berger

BookYearsHappenPassYounger

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.

Joel Edgerton

HopePathMeDownWonderSometimes

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Jennifer Lawrence

FailureBackActingKnowNeverFar

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

Anna Chlumsky

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Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

Merrill Markoe

ManYourselfListeningQuestionsYou

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

Amelia Earhart

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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

Stephen Hawking

SchoolMePotentialClassNeverTop

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

Stephen Hough

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Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand you can't do that without the adoption of some of the principles of the great universities in the West; one of those is the ability to have free expression and discussion in the classroom.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

GreatWorldFreePlanningThinkYou

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

Sissy Spacek

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I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it.

Tom Lenk

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I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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