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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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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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 started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
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When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
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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.
