Anthony Doerr Quotes
I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I don't believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color looks more polished and grown-up than a super-shiny gloss.
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There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.
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This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.
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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
