Andrew Solomon Quotes
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.
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What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
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I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.
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It's a weird thing about our business: You give everything you have, and there are moments where you go back and forth in your mind about if what you're doing is brilliant or a total disaster.
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Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.
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I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
