Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

Andrew Sean Greer

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'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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We're about moderation.

Jenny Craig

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I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Ang Lee

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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

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I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Jean Paul Gaultier

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There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

Amanda Eliasch

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When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.

Summer Sanders

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The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!

Tom Rachman

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The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Louis Agassiz

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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Peter O'Toole

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I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.

Sherwood Schwartz

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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Khrushchev

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