Andrew Dost Quotes
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
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I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.
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If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
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I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.
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It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.
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I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.
