Anthony Doerr Quotes

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

Anthony Doerr

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• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Hate

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

  

  Feist
  • You
  • Everything
  • Canvas

• I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Happy
  • Working
  • Very

• I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Look

• I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Working
  • Improv
  • Excite

• Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • May
  • Evil
  • Heaven

• Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Wealth
  • Where

• Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Time
  • War
  • Military

• Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.

  

  Vanessa Ray
  • Age
  • Right

• You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Pretty
  • Adversity
  • Monday

• I don't wanna lose your faceAnd I don't wanna wake up one dayand not remember what time erased.I don't wanna turn around'Cause I'm not scared of what love gave me and took away.And I don't wanna lose your face...

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Stupid

• 'I’m hoping no one will be quite that stupid,' Sparver said. 'Then again, this is baseline humans we’re dealing with.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Stupid

• I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.

  

  Lorraine Gary
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

  

  Derek Bailey
  • People
  • Work
  • Free

• I always tell people if you think you are susceptible to a blood clot, go check with your doctor.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • People

• I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  

  William Hague
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Cities

• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• Experts on both sides, both parties say that, Donald Trump is going to turn over the operation to his three children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka. That's not a blind trust. According to experts we talked to, they're involved now in choosing the next government.

  

  Brian Ross
  • Children
  • Donald Trump
  • Cooperation

• I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

  

  Anthony Doerr