Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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The '60s look wasn't something I consciously chose, but in my late teens, I found myself styling my hair in a retro way and liking clothes - the shapes and silhouettes - that were from that era. They just reflected who I was.
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Travel is hard, and it's mostly not your fault.
