Andy Rooney Quotes
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
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I love TV.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
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Change isn't easy, it takes time.
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I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
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Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
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There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.
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Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
