Andrew Gold Quotes
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I want to have a long career.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
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Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I love festivals, period.
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I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
