Andrew-Lee Potts Quotes
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
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I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
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I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.
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If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it.
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We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.
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One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
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It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.
