Andy Roddick Quotes
I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
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I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.
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The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.
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We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be the "in music" at the time.
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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
