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
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
Haley Bennett -
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 -
When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
Ingmar Bergman -
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
Xun Kuang -
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
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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.
Lady Gaga -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Management must manage!
Harold S. Geneen -
What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
Victoria Moran
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
Nancy Johnson -
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 -
Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
Karen Kingsbury -
What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
Wallace Stevens -
I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
Larry Wall -
I gave a LOT of unnecessary head. And I know that guys are going to argue with me about this. 'Oh, Margaret, there's no such thing as unnecessary head! All head is necessary! All head is wanted and needed in the world. I run a home for unnecessary head.'
Margaret Cho
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To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.
J. Budziszewski -
I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
Ed Pastor -
I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing.
Andrea Seigel -
There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
Steve Jobs -
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
Simon Schama -
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
Andrew Sean Greer