Andy McNab Quotes
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.
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While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe - a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication.
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How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.
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I write about what I know – the places I’ve worked, the situations I’ve found myself in.
