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Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.

Andrew Sean Greer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Children Wind Book Wrong Say High

Nature is never finished.

Robert Smithson

Nature Never Finished

I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role.

Sissy Spacek

Life Good Great Think Doing Plan

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Tom Carper

Learning Plants Create Now Will Our

I don't want to waste my readers' time ever. My readers are very important to me.

Robin Coste Lewis

Time Me Important Want Very Readers

Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn't want to work on a set that looked like a theater; I wanted a kitchen of the sort every chef dreams about.

Ron Ben-Israel

Work Dreams Chef Kitchen Want Over

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.

Joseph C. Lincoln

Bicycle Journal Over Everyone Weekly

I want a really diverse range of different people under my belt. That's what I'm hoping to do with my career.

Dominic Sherwood

People Career Want Different People

I have no desire to switch companies or go to UFC or anything like that.

Dolph Ziggler

Go Desire Anything Like Switch UFC

Hollywood is a reflection of a general climate that we live in.

Donna Langley

Live Reflection Hollywood General

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

Doug Liman

School Questions Dumb Subscribe

'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Time Light People Research Thought

I never count calories, but I eat so well.

Alicia Silverstone

Diet Never Eat Count Well Calories