Andrew Solomon Quotes
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
