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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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I think that, generally, a woman brings in luck for her husband after marriage, but in my case, my husband is lucky for me.
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Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
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I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
