Andy Grammer (Andrew Charles Grammer) Quotes
It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
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I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.
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Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.
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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.
