Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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I was a tomboy.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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You look marvelous!
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I always have to be writing.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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That was the most important thing to me: making sure 'Gardner Elliot' was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time before filming to chat with Peter, the director, to create this character.
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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The Master was allergic to ideologies. 'In a war of ideas,' he said, 'it is people who are the casualties.' Later he elaborated: 'People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.'
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I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.
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I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
