Andrew Tan Quotes
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
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Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.
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I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.
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I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me.
