Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.
Maluma
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
Balaji Srinivasan
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Harold Washington
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
Malorie Blackman
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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Uma Thurman
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
Jack Harbaugh
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder
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There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
Ian Mckellen
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The reality is different. They are so matured as far as democracy is concerned, they rejected the color TV promised by Congress. They rejected the color TV, and they accepted a person who says that I'll serve the notice to tax evaders. And this is the strength of the democracy.
Narendra Modi
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You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires...' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.
James Cromwell
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
Irvine Welsh
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Alan Lightman
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The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.
John Scarlett
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I eagerly awaited visitors, but the anticipation and the extra energy of greetings caused a numbing exhaustion. As the first stories unfolded, my spirit held on to the conversation as best it could—I so wanted these connections to the outside world—but my body sank beneath waves of weakness. Still, my friends were golden threads randomly appearing in the monotonous fabric of my days. Each visit was a window that opened momentarily into the life I had once known, always falling shut before I could make my way back through. The visits were like dreams from which I awoke once more alone.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.
Andrew Sean Greer
