Andy Richter Quotes
I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?
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Thought is just not something objective in our heads. Thought is power – real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill – hence our responsibility to chose.
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
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I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.
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Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.
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A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
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I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.
