Andrew Hollander Quotes
I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
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I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
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The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that.
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Friends can have different dreams and do different things.
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When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
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People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
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I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me.
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I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.
