Andrew Forrest Quotes
Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I'm obsessed with this show called 'Workaholics.'
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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For the lion to to prosper the deer must die. All the world is combat.
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Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.
