Anthony Doerr Quotes

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

Anthony Doerr

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TreesThinkYouHumanKidJust

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

Jennifer Nettles

ChangeExperienceProcessYouTry

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

John Edward Redmond

KnowIrishFraudYearsActForce

I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential.

John Landgraf

HopeSocietyBelievePotentialHuman

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.

Sophie Hannah

LoveThoughtFeelKnowSeriously

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

Song Hye-kyo

FuturePictureBig PicturePaintBig

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Robin Wasserman

WritingBuildingDownWayWithout

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

RuPaul

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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy. I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me!

Claire Holt

LoveMyselfChallengeGratefulMe

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Cicely Tyson

LifeWorkMountainYourselfBelieve

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.

Bob Weinstein

FearYourselfYouPrepareOnlyYour

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.

Boots Riley

PeopleFeelEnoughUnionsAnything

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