Andrew X. Pham Quotes
If trouble is coming, don't turn your back, because that's when it's gonna stab. Best to meet it with a grin. That way, you can see what's coming.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.
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If trouble is coming, don't turn your back, because that's when it's gonna stab. Best to meet it with a grin. That way, you can see what's coming.
