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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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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The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.
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Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct-never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.
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The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
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I can definitely see why there was a reaction. It's definitely different. I guess it could be called definitely a lot different than the other two (albums). And if you didn't know the band, that would be kind of surprising.
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You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.
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I was a nerdy kid.
