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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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.
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The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
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Fernando Torres' English seems to be coming on good.
