Andrea Brown Quotes
There really aren't any unusual requests. They're humbled by the situation. It's hard to be displaced and ask for what you need.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
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We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.
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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will support the prosperity & union of the colonies. On the other we have struggled for liberty & made costly sacrifices at her shrine and there are still many among us who revere her name to much to relinquish (beyond a certain medium) the rights of man for the dignity of government.
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There really aren't any unusual requests. They're humbled by the situation. It's hard to be displaced and ask for what you need.
