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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I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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I loved Don. There was no one like him.
