Andy Partridge Quotes
We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.
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I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.
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I'm so sick of the brainless overpraise of post-structuralist drivel. Michel's oafishly pretentious and phony to boot. I liked him for defending pedophilia, but his writing style is dense and irrational. And that forced Parisian accent that he no longer has in real life because of all the time he's been spending in San Fran bath-houses - ugh!
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We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.
