Anthony Doerr Quotes

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

Anthony Doerr

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I don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.

Joe Montana

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Chris Nolan went through Slamdance a year and a half after us, and he went on to direct 'The Dark Knight.' So the joke now is if you want to make superhero movies, that's where you have to go.

Joe Russo

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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

Jim Crace

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We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

Jerry Kramer

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I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

Jerry Reed

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I'm a big wuss, and not the king in the least. My wife is.

Jason Momoa

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

Bruno Dumont

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According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

Annie Dillard

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I always say this, but I'm saying this again. Do not encourage piracy.

Allu Arjun

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Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Algernon Sidney

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I went to pick my son up from school and walked him back and was in the house preparing dinner, and he came in the house and gave me this flower of chrysanthemum that was full of ants. And he went back out to play and ran out into the street and got hit by a car. The car happened to be driven by a LAPD detective.

Susan Burton

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