Andrew Wilkow Quotes
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people and drink. Jump behind the wheel like it was still legal!
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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I was one of these people, especially early in my career, who balanced the equation too much in favor of my job; I spent most of my life focusing on that. But becoming a dad gave me back perspective; it brought balance into my life.
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Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.
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Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.
