Anthony Doerr Quotes
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
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I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.
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No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
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Live simply so that others may simply live.
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There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
