Andrew Sean Greer Quotes
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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Without dissatisfaction, there’s no basis for a sale.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.
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I'm not despairing of love at all.
