Andy Kindler Quotes
I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
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Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.
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Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.'
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I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
