Anthony Doerr Quotes
When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing with a receptive constituency in northern Iraq because of the intense hatred of the Maliki government, which of course is imposing the Shia view on them.
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I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
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When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.
