Andrew Gould Quotes
I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
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I try to keep an even keel.
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My father and brothers were in the military.
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Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.
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I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
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I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.
