Andrea Thompson Quotes
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.
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Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.
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We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
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Everything is connected. Concern for the environment thus needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.
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When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
