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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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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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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I … thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.
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For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.
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The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?
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There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
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Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy’s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.
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I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
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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.
