Andy Behrman Quotes
The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.
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Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
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I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right, and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.
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I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.
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The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed.
