Andra Day Quotes
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
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It's important for me to have my family close.
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A name change has a rippling effect on the people who have to change their address, ... The first thing we have to do is get the affected neighbors and have a meeting to let them know what's going on.
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To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobody has money, people are unemployed, and the machines are harnessed by the lucky guys who Facebook or Google and we're supposed to be happy just to contribute content to their site.
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I want people to... not be afraid of their truth.
