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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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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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I am glad to have the opportunity of standing up against a rabble of men who hasten to make weathercocks of themselves.
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No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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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.
