Anthony Doerr Quotes
My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
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...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.
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In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.
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In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.
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My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.
