Andy Cohen Quotes
I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.
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I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.
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I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
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A girl what's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.
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I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
