Andrew Vachss Quotes
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy.
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I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.
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Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
