Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

Elizabeth Strout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.

Joel Kinnaman

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Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

Ann Dowd

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I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

Stuart Rose

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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

Tom Petty

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Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

Ron Johnson

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I will greet every person who comes to my workshops and seminars.

Diamond Dallas Page

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I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

Donnie Yen

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We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

Chris Pine

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There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

Chuck Berry

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We're not defined by our circumstances, and we can always find a way to rise above it.

Ashleigh Murray

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

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My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

Kym Whitley

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