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Anthony Doerr Quotes

I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

Anthony Doerr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Learning Job Writing Thinking Learn

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

Jessica Cutler

Everyone Democratic Most Should Blog

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

John Travolta

Pain Emotions Unwanted Birth Along

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

Simon Schama

New York Green Stylish New More Big

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

Luis von Ahn

Purpose People Game Computers Games

I've got the chance to make history, and that means such a lot to me.

Ashley Cole

History Me Chance Got Make Means

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Peter Morgan

Work Reading Feel Movies Pleasure

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Creative Anger Angry Person Like

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Richard Louv

Communication Way Talk More Mothers

I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.

Nick Rhodes

Love Culture Step Look Back Outside

I think any director is intimidating.

Julie Andrews

Think Director I Think Intimidating

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

James Iha

Job Early First Nineties Playing

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Father Mother God Beginning Heaven