Andrew Gower Quotes
I don't mind beetroot on a plate. I don't mind it with part of a dinner. But it's not my choice to drink out of a cup.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
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I think penguins are cute.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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I don't mind beetroot on a plate. I don't mind it with part of a dinner. But it's not my choice to drink out of a cup.
