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Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

My mother is a southern lady with short dark hair and a wary, blue-eyed smile. She is also an experimental chemist and teaches a college course entitled The Chemistry of Cooking.

Andrew Sean Greer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

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Smile Mother Cooking College Hair

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

Joan Didion

Process Political Become Clear Meant

To be honest, bread constipates me, and I like to have my daily bowel movement.

Jessica Simpson

Daily Me Bread Movement Honest Like

I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I've resigned myself to that, and it's kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.

Andy Grammer

Myself Best Creative Writing Think

For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

Anand Gopal

Reputation More Farmers Years Being

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

John Petit-Senn

Talent Self-Esteem Where Dwarf Giant

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

Stewart Udall

Beauty Balance Natural Beauty Values

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

Sissy Spacek

Work Best Body Career Done Build

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics.

Trip Hawkins

Time Powerful True More Electronics

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Shirley Knight

Good New York Rich Famous Goal New

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Robert Fitzgerald

Work Winter Sea Think Impact Rocks

I do believe we can do more to bring the U.N. closer to the world's citizen and make a real difference in their lives.

Miroslav Lajcak

World Believe Citizen More Real

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional.

DeRay Mckesson

Struggle People Story Black You See