Andie MacDowell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
-
The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
-
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
-
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
Speed can't always get you wickets.
-
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
-
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
-
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
-
Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
-
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
-
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
-
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
-
Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
-
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers -
I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
-
I'm very unorganized.
-
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
-
My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
-
I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.
-
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
-
As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
-
I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley.
-
It's interesting now; with social media, you are actually interacting with fans.
