Andrew Solomon Quotes
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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The world is always terrible.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
