Andy Kindler Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
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I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
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Once I finish shooting a film, I usually sit on it to see how we can make it better.
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In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech, of everyone's right to speak up - the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That's so disappointing.
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It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.
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My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.
