Anthony Doerr Quotes

All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.

Anthony Doerr

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WinterLightCookingWaitStartNow

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Joe Perry

WorkTimeLongFindI CanLong Time

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Jeremy Bentham

NatureAlonePainTwoPleasureOut

I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.

Ann-Margret

HatsGoOverOutHeadLow

I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

LiveParentsMeAmericaYouFind

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

Sophia Loren

WalkAnimalMindLongYouDumb

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

Simon Helberg

OutNerdsLot

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Rory Kinnear

LoveExperiencePoetryFateTalking

Michael Bisping's whole life is a film scene. He's always acting. Confronting me at UFC 213, it makes me laugh. It's a bit clownish.

Robert Whittaker

LifeMeLaughLife Is AActingFilm

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

Logan Lerman

DoorActingGotFootGet

I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.

Jonathan Anderson

ManSocietyThinkSeeingBodyFind

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

Dexter Filkins

CalmEndAmericanLateCountryKind

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

Drew Barrymore

MyselfBrainNegativeClothesEnjoy

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