Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

Andrew Sean Greer

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• I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Like
  • Never
  • Feel

• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mom

• When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Need
  • Structure

• Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Feelings
  • Devotion
  • Longing

• I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Up
  • Song
  • Night

• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Think
  • Political

• I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • School
  • Money

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Long
  • Imperialism

• When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Party

• My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Faith

• Management must manage!

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Management
  • Manage

• What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Work
  • Right

• Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • America
  • High
  • Health

• We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Party

• What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Interesting
  • Small

• We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence.

  

  Reinhard Bonnke
  • Spirit
  • Lord
  • Sing

• When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Child

• My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Business
  • Rest

• Anybody who knows me knows that I don't just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Breathe

• Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

  

  Andrew Sean Greer