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.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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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.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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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.
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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.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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'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.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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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.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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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.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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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.
