Andy Kaufman Quotes
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
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It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
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I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
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I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.
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What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
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As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
