Andy Townsend Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
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I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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Fernando Torres' English seems to be coming on good.
