Andrew Solomon Quotes
Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.
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I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.
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The big problem retailers are facing is the world is moving to mobile.
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When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.
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There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
