Andy Dunn Quotes
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.
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The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.
