Andy McNab Quotes
I look at writing as a medium of entertainment. You can get too precious about your stuff. It has to compete with everything else, like DVDs and CDs.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
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Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.
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I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.
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When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
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The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
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I support Kam Chancellor as a person.
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As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.
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Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
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I look at writing as a medium of entertainment. You can get too precious about your stuff. It has to compete with everything else, like DVDs and CDs.
