Andy Behrman Quotes
I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.
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Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation.
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Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.
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I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.
