Andy Albright Quotes
The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue One' where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that's part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I've done before.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him - I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.
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First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.
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The biggest thing I think is, 'It's OK to care. It's OK to want to win and to be that team. To be upset when we lose.'
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I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
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There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
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My schedule can be hectic, so I'm always trying to find time to see my friends and family.
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
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History teaches us that the cause of humanity is only advanced through strife. There’s no Renaissance without the Dark Ages.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.
