Andie MacDowell Quotes
I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.
Quotes to Explore
-
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
-
I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
-
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
-
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
-
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
-
No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
-
I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
-
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
-
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
-
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
-
I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
-
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
-
Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
-
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
-
Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
-
I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
-
I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.
-
The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.
-
We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
-
I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.
-
I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.
