Andre Ovredal Quotes
I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
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I'm really a normal person.
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I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
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The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
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I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
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I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.
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Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
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I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.