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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People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.
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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
