Andrew Kaufman Quotes
We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
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It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
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We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
