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.

Andrew Sean Greer

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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

• Fly-fishing is really addictive.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fly
  • Really
  • Fishing

• 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.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Know
  • Language
  • Civilization

• 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've made several films that haven't been shown.

  

  Kenneth Anger

• You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Church

• The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden

• There's not a part of me, apart from the soles of my feet, which has not had work done.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Work
  • Done

• If you love someone, you will want to understand them and accept them as they grow and change; similarly, loving yourself involves a never-ending process of self-understanding and self-acceptance through life's ups and downs...we are finally coming to understand that love for neighbor and love for self naturally lead to love for the earth...if you love your neighbor as yourself, you want both them and you to be able to breathe, so you need to love clean fresh air...you want them and you to be able to drink, so you need to love pure water in all its forms...you want them and you to be be able to eat, so you need to care about the climate....

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Love
  • Earth
  • Neighbor

• 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