Andrew Keegan Quotes
I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
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I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
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I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it.
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After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'
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Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.
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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
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I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.
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I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.
