Anthony Doerr Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Home is where one starts from.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.
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I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!
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I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.
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I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.
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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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I was a nerdy kid.
