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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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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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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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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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Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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The thread that has always connected my family was the news.
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Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because while it may lead to big opening grosses, a lot of pictures that are a little different and don't fit so neatly into either a niche market or a high-concept marketing approach can get lost in the shuffle. That's one unfortunate thing.
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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.
