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.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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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'?
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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?
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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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.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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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.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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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.
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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.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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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.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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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.
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Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
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The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.
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Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.
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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.
