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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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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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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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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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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The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
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I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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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.
