Anthony Doerr Quotes

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

Anthony Doerr

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All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

John Ashcroft

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I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.

Anika Noni Rose

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I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

John Sandford

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Players are saying, 'I don't have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something'.

Martina Navratilova

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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'

Lorrie Moore

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I like progress but I hate change.

Jon Bon Jovi

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My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Dolly Parton

HomeMeHouseI CanPlaceOffice

I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?'

Courtney A. Kemp

YouDoneNeverAskAlwaysBefore

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Peter Ackroyd

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I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game.

Tim Page

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I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.

Ricky Whittle

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