Andy Griffith Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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And even if what they showed you is true, that doesn’t begin to make it right. The cause might be just, Felka, but history’s littered with atrocities committed in the name of righteousness.
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I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.
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Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.
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Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.
