Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.
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That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
