Andy Kindler Quotes
I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
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I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.
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A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
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Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.
