Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I'm very candid.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
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Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
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In my heart she's my kind of girl.
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'Yo' waddup; this is Snoop D-O-Double-G sayin' stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace.'
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I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.
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Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.
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No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
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Can you call and thank reviewers? I always wondered that.
