Andrew Yan Quotes
The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is push my dog off of me. He likes to sleep on top of me. I think it's because I'm warm and breathing.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.
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You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.
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The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is push my dog off of me. He likes to sleep on top of me. I think it's because I'm warm and breathing.
