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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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 consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on.
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When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.
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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.
