Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

Andrew Sean Greer

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• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Doubt

• One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • More
  • Far
  • Rare

• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Same

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Better
  • Garden

• The core of my personality consists of many selves.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Personality
  • Many
  • Core

• MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Laughing

• It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Me
  • Difference
  • Bridges

• Not many of my friends I had from college are playing in this league. Everybody knows it's a privilege, so you definitely don't knock it because you never know where you may end up.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • May
  • Friends

• Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Losing

• When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Project
  • Directing

• When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Hate
  • Religion

• Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Hand
  • Perseverance

• 'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Society
  • Model

• I gave a reply: that my election speeches are available with the election commission. My statements are available in the newspapers. If you will find out a single statement that you can brand as communal, I will declare myself defeated. No one dared to come forward.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Single

• The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Society

• I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Career

• Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

  

  Andy Dick
  • People
  • Gay
  • Bisexual

• I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Gay
  • Walking

• Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing - it is never dull.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Home
  • Utopia
  • Mystic

• I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Gay