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 knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.
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It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
