Anthony Doerr Quotes

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

Anthony Doerr

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I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.

Jerry Garcia

GuitarYouPlaySometimesWantKind

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.

Jeremy Bulloch

FunPeopleChanceMaskYouNice

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

Michael Apted

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I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Amanda Plummer

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I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

Josh Hutcherson

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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Joseph Conrad

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I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.

Dolores O'Riordan

PeopleGrowing UpKnowLivingLived

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

Diana Krall

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My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

Douglas Coupland

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When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

Bono

LifeGodPurposeYourselfYouYour

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

Bruce Boxleitner

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Pierre Bayle

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