Elizabeth Strout
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PATRICK CORBETT I was Olivia Newton-John in my lounge room for sure. I guess at the time, without even knowing it, s... KYLIE MINOGUE My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK JOHN SCALZI JOAN RIVERS Everybody wants it and it is the peak of my career, without a doubt, MARKUS MERK I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited f... KELLY BUTLER I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because... HEIDI JULAVITS DOUGLAS COUPLAND This is my way of commenting on what's happening right now. It's disturbing. I saw Condoleezza Rice ... ED HAMELL JAMES CAMERON SAFRA A. CATZ My mother was a wonderful woman and led a good life. She went peacefully. DENNIS RILEY This is, without a doubt, the most difficult thing I have had to do in my two decades at American. DON CARTY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She ... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worri... ELFRIEDE JELINEK My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son... ADRIANO GIANNINI TOBY KEITH SLOANE CROSLEY This has been a wonderful experience for me in many ways. But one of the greatest of those is that n... LUIS CAMPOS RUFUS WAINWRIGHT MARIA SHRIVER My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. MARCIA CLARK My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ... BONNIE TYLER She is a wonderful, wonderful mother. JAMES COLLINS 'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudino... DAVID GARROW MAYA ANGELOU Hannah strived for physical catharsis, but she was trapped in an unfamiliar mind without its biologi... JAKE VANDER-ARK BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in ... GABY HOFFMANN ANNE LAMOTT It was great to just have a full year without getting hurt. Just knowing my knees are gonna hold up ... KATHLYN MCCLAIN Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke my once carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my f... H.S. CROW I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... JEFF KINNEY I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen wh... KIKI ARCHER Adam thinks that you two are in an argument."JENNIFER ECHOLS Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or e... VANESSA LACHEY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM ROLLO MAY MADONNA CICCONE Death is like a dusty road, without you by my side BEN OAK He was not a kook surfer who was way out of his league. Without a doubt in my mind, it was definitel... DAN WATTS [The statute] has been resurrected to discriminate. Even if it was even-handedly applied, it is with... CHARLES WAGNER My daughter had a princess funeral. Without it, she probably would have been cremated, seriously. Th... PAULETTA VAUGHN A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do b... LOIS WYSE HENRY DAVID THOREAU Past is experience and future an illusion, both being mostly useless because the change is in every ... LEO KKS It's a huge honor to receive this award and is obviously not possible without my teammates and coach... EDDIE POPE When Dan called and asked me to prepare a eulogy for Maggie, I said yes, because there is nothing in... SUMI MCCABE This is Florida. If you go to so many parts of the state everything is bilingual ... In some places ... ELLEN HARVEY ALFRED DE VIGNY SHANIA TWAIN Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it. PETE HAMILL GERHARD KOCHER OLIVER SIM People are going to buy this stuff without even knowing it. ABNER GERMANOW My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers... BRIAN HERBERT Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. ... BJORN ULVAEUS It is an academic way to get kids involved. Students are problem solving and learning without even k... ANNE DOBROWSKI Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that... RUSTY BLACKWOOD Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin... LUZ MARTINEZ Beh reaches up and touches my cheek.SHAY SAVAGE ROLLO MAY JUNOT DIAZ HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ROLLO MAY HARUKI MURAKAMI MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. TABITHA KING Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke remembrances of a carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to... H.S. CROW Without a doubt, she was the difference tonight. She hit the ball very hard all night. BRIAN CAHOON ANGELUS SILESIUS Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket. NICK TOSCHES The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE WASHED OUT A prophet is without honor in his home because,due to proximity factor a prophet may not be able to ... 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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of question... 
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women. 
It is a lie. 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
My life is a struggle. 
Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great... 
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, kee... 
My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive -... 
This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my l... 
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... 
I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without e... 
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. 
My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, ... 
Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... 
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do i... 
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive.... 
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. 
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at wri... 
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stand... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, a... 
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal... 
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need ... 
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after. 
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see... 
Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music. 
Many of us will die for science without knowing it. 
My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the begin... 
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal... 
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because... 
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. 
I learned there were lots of realities in the world. 
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ... 
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ... 
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. 
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... 
I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w... 
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w... 
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. 
I'm a puzzle doer. 
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. 
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ... 
Everything makes me nervous - except making films. 
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. 
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! 
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. 
I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni... 
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w... 
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. 
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. 
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. 
The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high... 
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. 
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. 
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this... 
The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab... 
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask... 
I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. 
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive... 
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it... 
I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit... 
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster... 
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome... 
Minds ripen at very different ages. 
My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will... 
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. 
Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No... 
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T... 
The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating 
The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing... 
Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b... 
Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug... 
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa... 
I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo... 
Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her... 
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... 
Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... 
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! 
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. 
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... 
He who angers you conquers you. 
When I dream, I am ageless. 