Andie MacDowell Quotes

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

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• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

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• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

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• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

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• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

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• The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

  

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• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

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• Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

  

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• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

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• Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'

  

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• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  

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• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

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• I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

  

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• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

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• Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

  

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• I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

  

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• Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

  

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• Huge 'Scandal' fan, and I have been since the beginning.

  

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• A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river - but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself - a thing that went on caring.

  

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• Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

  

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• In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality