Andrew Lakey Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
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Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
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I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
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If you're doing anything disruptive, and if you know it to be good and true and progressive, let the naysayers fuel you to work harder and go faster and sleep less.
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I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
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It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
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Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
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It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.
