Andrew Aydin Quotes
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman John Lewis at a book festival.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
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I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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America should function as a Christian nation.
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Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.
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I'm very shy about seeing my own face on the screen.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
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Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman John Lewis at a book festival.
