Andrew Shue Quotes
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
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I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
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The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I prefer girls who are young.
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It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
