Anthony Doerr Quotes
The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.
Anthony Doerr
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
Maika Monroe
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
Orlando Bloom
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
Sam Wyly
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
Rainn Wilson
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
Sam Graves
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
Laura Spencer
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
Talulah Riley
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
Ferdinand Foch
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
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Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, 'Wait a minute. He's not allowed to make mistakes,' - my mind.
George Benson
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
Patricia Hewitt
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Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.
Kathy Freston
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Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
H. L. Mencken
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The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.
Anthony Doerr
