Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
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There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
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There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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I never wanted to be a scientist.
