Andrew Forrest Quotes
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I want to have a long career.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.
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You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
