Andrew Vachss Quotes
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
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People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
