Andrew Yan Quotes
What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think.
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Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
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We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.
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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
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What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.
