Andie MacDowell Quotes
The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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Being evil is easy.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.
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The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
