Anthony Doerr Quotes
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
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When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
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If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.
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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
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For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field.
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Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
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You think about when you're with your friend, and you hang out with your friend. And then you go do whatever you're doing, your life. You know, and then you see your friend again. But for us, we were friends that, we would be together, and then we would go to work, which was us still again, so we were always together.
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Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
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Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.
