Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
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For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, 'clean energy' research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.
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Work is no longer challenging.
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Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.
