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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Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.
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Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development.
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Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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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.
