Andy McDermott Quotes
Get your boys ready. However this turns out, there'll be trouble—and they'll need more than tear gas and pepperballs to deal with it.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised
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Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
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There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.
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The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
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You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.
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There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.
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Get your boys ready. However this turns out, there'll be trouble—and they'll need more than tear gas and pepperballs to deal with it.
