Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.
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When a man counts one, two, three, he is not only doing mathematics, he is on the path to the mysticism of numbers in Pythagoras and Vitruvius and Kepler, to the Trinity and the signs of the Zodiac.
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I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
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There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
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I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.
