Andre Rieu Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
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Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.
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Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
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I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
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Quakers are terrific.
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I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
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Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
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When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
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When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge.
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You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.
