Andrew Vachss Quotes
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
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Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.
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Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
