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.'
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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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!
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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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.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
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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.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Management must manage!
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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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!'
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.
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What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
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When my son was little, we mothers always did the Halloween parties, and I would wear my orange-and-black Chanel. It comes in handy on October 31. I'm the chicest pumpkin around.
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The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
