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.
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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.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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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.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
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I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
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I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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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.
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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.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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.
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I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.
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My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
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Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.
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There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.
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We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.
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I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.
