Andy Griffith Quotes
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
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I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
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I loved Don. There was no one like him.
