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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I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
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Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.
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The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
