Andy Greenwald Quotes
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
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I am for people. I can't help it.
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
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Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.
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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
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When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.
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To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
