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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Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.
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I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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I've written with people who aren't like me, then I've written with people who totally get it. It's like a blind date, and you never know what's going to happen. But it's really cool because they learn from you, and you learn a little bit from them. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.
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I'm only one Neymar - for my family, for the public. I'm always the same person.
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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.
