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Anthony Doerr Quotes

When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

Anthony Doerr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Life Live People Book Rest Enough

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

Joe Sacco

City Place Go Out Check Just

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Good Fire River Never Piano Away

When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoor soccer team, was outdrawing the Bulls. Now you can travel all over the world - Europe, Far East, Africa, wherever - and you see people with Bulls memorabilia or merchandise. It's incredible and the one thing I never could imagined accomplishing.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Travel People Team World You Soccer

One day, you'll get out of the Marine Corps; you'll put your uniform up, but you'll never not be a Marine.

John F. Kelly

Day You Uniform One Day Never Out

Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.

Andrea Seigel

Character People Writing You Page

I think if you accept the Left's premise of a living Constitution, then you accept the Left's premise of a living America, meaning that they think that America's history is rotten.

Andrew Breitbart

History Constitution Think America

I don't regret putting 'The Apprentice' on television.

Jeff Zucker

Regret Television Putting Apprentice

The guys who like chinos and cords never went away. They've always been there. They're remarkably loyal, just not remarkably vocal.

Michael Bastian

Never Always Loyal Away Been Just

Most of the time, people think they went to high school with me.

Mia Sara

Time School People Me Think High

In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.

Anand Giridharadas

Beautiful People Skin More Praise

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

Robbie Robertson

Better You I Can Play Cry Dancers

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that.

Rose Leslie

Family Childhood Amazing Trees Short