Andre Kostelanetz Quotes
We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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I've never been a 'yes person.'
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Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
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I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
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When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
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I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
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We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
