Andy Ihnatko Quotes
I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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I feel like I go through an awkward phase almost every day.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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Just say no to drugs!
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
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Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.
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My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’
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Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge in sleep.
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I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.
