Anthony Doerr Quotes

Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.

Anthony Doerr

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I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.

Adnan Sami

BelievePhilosophyI BelieveTurning

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Joan Jett

FoodMeLivingInsectsIncluding

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.

Jennifer Pahlka

GovernmentPeopleThinkYouFix

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

Andy Grammer

TimeSongHellCreateWriteHard

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

John Ridley

NatureIntegrityArtBestDebate

We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.

Steve Brown

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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Tony Gilroy

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In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

Ron Funches

GreatArtPeopleWorldEnoughYou

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

Mary Daly

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The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.

Cory Booker

BeautyPeopleMeEgoDoneBig

I was once dressed as a mermaid for a Jean Paul Gaultier show. My legs were bound into a fish tail, so I had to come down the runway on crutches. Halfway down, I was supposed to unzip the fish tail to reveal my legs, but the zipper broke, so I ended up stabbing my fake nail through the fabric of the zipper and ripping my way out.

Coco Rocha

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I remember working with Agyness Deyn. At the time, she was the only one who had short hair as a model. I remember being so envious of her because we would all be getting our hair pulled for two hours backstage, and she was getting a new haircut almost every other show.

Coco Rocha

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