Andrew Aydin Quotes
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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My songs are about who I am.
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I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
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Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.
