Andy Garcia Quotes

Every family is dysfunctional.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Powerful
  • Start
  • Name

• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Now is the only thing that exists.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Now
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Islam
  • West

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Death

• I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Business
  • Military
  • Author

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Man
  • Better
  • Problems

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• I'm from San Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.

  

  Jesse Andrews

• In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Life
  • True
  • Action

• It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Complicated
  • Paper

• Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

  

  Lisa See
  • People
  • Family
  • Done

• Every family is dysfunctional.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Family