Andy Griffiths Quotes
“If you’re like most of our readers, you’re probably wondering where we get all the ideas for our books from. Well, sometimes we think them up. Other times they are based on stuff that actually happens. Like this book, for instance. It all started one morning when I got up and went down to get some breakfast.

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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
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I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!
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Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.
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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
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I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.
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“If you’re like most of our readers, you’re probably wondering where we get all the ideas for our books from. Well, sometimes we think them up. Other times they are based on stuff that actually happens. Like this book, for instance. It all started one morning when I got up and went down to get some breakfast.