Andrew McDermott Quotes
It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
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One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
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Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
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Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
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I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.
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It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
