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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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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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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Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
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Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
