Andy Gilbert Quotes
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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No one can keep you down except yourself.
