Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.

Andrew Sean Greer

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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Andre Breton

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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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With modelling, a lot happens behind the scenes; all the fittings and hair and makeup. Then the runway takes two minutes - you just walk out and come back in!

Anna Ewers

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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Stephen Sondheim

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Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

Steven Pinker

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I share the skepticism that my friends have about NAFTA. It was woefully weak in protecting workers and on the enforcement side. The question is can we meaningfully build a trade regime that has as its North Star protecting American workers and American jobs through meaningful enforcement? I think we can.

Tom Perez

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I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down.

Tom Rath

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Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

Michele Bachmann

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The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.

Louis XIV

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Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.

Jonathan Vilma

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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Dolly Parton

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Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

Diamond Dallas Page

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