Andre Dubus III Quotes
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.
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There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
