Andy Griffith Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.
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Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.
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I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.
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No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.
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I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.
