Andrea Thompson Quotes
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.
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The similarities between me and my father are different.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.
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It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
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I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
