Anthony Doerr Quotes
Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.
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I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
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There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.
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I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.
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Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.
