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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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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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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.
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If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
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I do like touring. Sometimes it's crazy. We're really lucky and we've gone all over the world. You can't complain about getting paid to see the world. I've had to reel myself in a little bit at some points.
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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.
