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 think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.
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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
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That's what the general gives me. That's what our budget can withstand.
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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.
