Andrew Mason Quotes
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
Quotes to Explore
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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I'm a normal guy.
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I hate big models.
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There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
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Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
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Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
