Andrew Rosenthal Quotes
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.
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People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
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Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
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