Andrew Yan Quotes
We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Samuel Eto'o I know well. We see each other often; we send each other messages, and we call each other. It's good.
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For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.
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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
