Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

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• It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Growth
  • Learn
  • Impossible

• I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Words
  • Like
  • Painting

• After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Practice
  • Back
  • Nap

• Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • May
  • Deep

• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Air
  • Enough

• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Generosity
  • Ruin
  • Moderation

• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Moving
  • Body
  • Path

• All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Business
  • Being
  • Consumer

• I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • Want
  • Know

• I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Sure
  • Hearing

• As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Finding

• Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Construction

• In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Consistency

• No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against 'no fault' insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Great
  • Success
  • Control

• I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Life
  • Smart

• I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Writing
  • Guy

• There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

  

  Chelsea Handler

• For someone like MC Ren, who is still alive and I can go talk to, that's more of a niche challenge because I do have to match his energy, and I do have to pay homage to who he is as a person, but that just comes with research. And the difference there is I can do the research there right on the spot. I can just go ask him.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Energy
  • Challenge

• I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Love
  • You

• [Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Law
  • Taken
  • Facts

• An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or destroy you.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Idea
  • Destroy
  • VIrus

• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer