Anthony Doerr Quotes

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr

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Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

Jill Clayburgh

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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

Jill Scott

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Style is character.

Joan Didion

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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

John Bright

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

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I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

Anatoli Boukreev

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Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

John Montgomery Ward

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Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

Robert Mondavi

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I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

Stana Katic

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You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

Steven Spielberg

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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Robert Cecil

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I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Chris Evert

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