Andy Rooney Quotes
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I dress for men.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
