Andrew Hacker Quotes
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.
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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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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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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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I'm a workaday writer.
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When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.
