Andie MacDowell Quotes
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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Everything in moderation, like calories.
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I exercise every day. It's what makes me happy.
