Anthony Doerr Quotes
We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.
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When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
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Right now we're in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
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We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.
