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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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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Everyone in their car needs love.
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For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
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When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
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Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.
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To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
