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.
Anthony Doerr
Quotes to Explore
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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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.
Yousuf Karsh
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
Jack Hanna
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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.
Lajos Kossuth
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
Rachel Roy
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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.
Malorie Blackman
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. Fields
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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.
Laura Linney
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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.
Zach Galifianakis
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
Flea
Jane's Addiction