Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Quotes
I believe the greatest blessing God can send a man, is disappointment, rightly met and used...You are quite certain, my friend, as you go on through life, to have to make up your mind to failure and disappointment on your own part, and to seeing other men preferred before you...The only way not to be disappointed when a thing turns out against you, is not to have really cared how the thing went.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
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There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
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I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
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As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
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My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.
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Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
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I believe the greatest blessing God can send a man, is disappointment, rightly met and used...You are quite certain, my friend, as you go on through life, to have to make up your mind to failure and disappointment on your own part, and to seeing other men preferred before you...The only way not to be disappointed when a thing turns out against you, is not to have really cared how the thing went.
