Andrew van der Bijl Quotes
If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairyness, &c., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.
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It’s like choosing between being shot or poisoned.
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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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I can be a lady - surprise!
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I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
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Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.
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I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne
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If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
