Anthony Doerr Quotes

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

Anthony Doerr

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MeFeelFastLuckyGoneSomething

I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.

Joel Benenson

OptimistReporterStillPerpetual

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

John Lone

FriendFatherMotherParentsPeople

Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.

John Mellencamp

LifeNeverPointFollyShouldTotal

So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.

Robert Krulwich

PeopleThingsAwareWordManyPosts

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

Robert Greenwald

EffortPeopleMake A DifferenceBack

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

Michele Bachmann

PeopleThinkSaySincereRecognize

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

Mo Rocca

MediaTelevisionMatterDigitalEven

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

Judy Sheindlin

CarMomentStressPeopleI CanOver

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

LiveIdeasOwnFabricWebOur

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Dinesh D'Souza

FaithReasonAlwaysChristianity

Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do that, it's going to get someone else to do that.

Diane Warren

LoveMeCoolWritingSomeoneCry

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

Clara Mamet

LoveTimingHimDialogueFaster

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