Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
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Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.
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I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.
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I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.
