Ander Crenshaw Quotes
I am proud of the work we have accomplished for the citizens of Northeast Florida and our nation during my time in Congress.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms - so familiar at this time of year - can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.
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I can take a grandfather clock to pieces and put it back together again.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'
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I am proud of the work we have accomplished for the citizens of Northeast Florida and our nation during my time in Congress.
