Anthony Doerr Quotes

Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow' wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.

Anthony Doerr

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TimeKingMeLongStrikeArrow

Evangelicals and conservatives are voting as Americans and are voting to save our nation to control immigration, to stop terrorism, to bring jobs back to the country.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

ControlVotingImmigrationBackStop

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Megan Fox

WantPrettyRobert

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.

Jean-Luc Godard

SciencePoetryThinkPoliticalYou

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

Robert Dallek

EveryoneSeemsNowadaysBlogReaders

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost

TeacherYouJumpKindSkiesTwo

I think, in Washington, getting things for the great people of Texas done is an important job.

Michael McCaul

GreatJobPeopleTexasThinkDone

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Lisa Kleypas

TimeAngryHappyLongLong Time

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

William Wycherley

DrunkWillManlyBeingGlorious

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

LovePowerLibertyOthersOurselves

As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections.

Suzan DelBene

SupportEnvironmentalStrongLabor

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

Pete Docter

FunBetterFriendsBadAnimation

I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.

Nigel Lythgoe

DieSaidNeverIndividualLeftIdol

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