Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

Andrew Sean Greer

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• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Girl

• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Law
  • Doubt
  • Yourself

• I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Magic
  • Expectations

• I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

  

  Parker Posey
  • School
  • Done
  • Better

• I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Harmonica

• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • War
  • King
  • Vietnam War

• You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Know
  • Humble
  • Be Humble

• We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • Home
  • Child
  • Chapter

• When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Myself
  • First
  • Starting

• I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Baby

• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Different
  • Literature

• If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Funny

• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Father
  • Education
  • Say

• I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Relationship
  • Shows

• The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Home

• I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. … Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years - I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

  

  Al Gore
  • Children
  • May
  • Experience

• I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Forgiveness

• Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Tree

• I looked at different products we could do, and the marshmallows were the most fun to develop.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Different
  • Fun

• Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Fate
  • Thank God

• I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer