Anthony Doerr Quotes
Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
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Over periods of 10,000 years the distinctions between Western and Eastern and African cultures lose all meaning. Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans. And over a time span of 300 million years we are all amphibians, waddling uncertainly out of dried-up ponds onto the alien and hostile land.
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The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
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Americans love DON'T. Thou shalt not. The bedrock of received knowledge - the Ten Commandments. The God fearing pioneers who still had a long way to go. GO! DONT GO! GO. FUCK YOU GOD! We're on our way...
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Where there is water, there are people.
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Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.