Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

It's funny how the present can change the past.

Andrew Sean Greer

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After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Robert Quine

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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Anna Deavere Smith

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

John Poindexter

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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Steve Coogan

ComedyYouTragedyAlwaysDiscomfort

You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.

Marv Levy

GoodPhilosophyYouWantMissPart

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

Joseph Lancaster

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At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Diane Cilento

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Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

Chris Lowe

GoodMusicTimeDanceHouseSerious

'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

Colson Whitehead

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What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

Annie Leibovitz

I AmPeopleLandscapePicturesNow

I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

Alison Sweeney

GoodMusicMeMovingEnergyDoing

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