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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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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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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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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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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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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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.'
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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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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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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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Morris Louis and I were interested in how Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler famous for her soak-painting technique were using paint. Of necessity we had to get more interested in the stuff of painting. We talked a lot about whether to size the painting or not to size, how to mix up paint.
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I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.
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I envy my daughter's childhood.
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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.'
