Anthony Doerr Quotes

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

Anthony Doerr

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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.

Jim McKay

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The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.

Jillionaire

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I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

Jhonen Vasquez

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I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.

Jesse White

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I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

Stephen Colbert

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In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

Stephen Gardiner

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Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Stephen Greenblatt

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

Ron Lewis

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Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Luciano Pavarotti

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I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

Jose Andres

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I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.

Deirdre Lovejoy

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