Andrew Solomon Quotes
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
