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 did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'
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Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
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Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.
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Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
