Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Style
  • Driving
  • Aggressive

• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Change
  • Bravery

• And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Beautiful
  • Green
  • Tourism

• My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Want
  • Sin
  • Paint

• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Again

• People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

  Action Bronson
  • You
  • Like
  • Without

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Country
  • Parents

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Different
  • Family
  • American

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • High
  • Amazing
  • Lawyers

• The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Work
  • Art
  • Home

• I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Up
  • Friends
  • College

• I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Questions
  • Figure
  • Online

• Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Pink

• You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

  

  Ann Romney

• I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Friends