Andy Rooney Quotes
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.
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Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.
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For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was Boris Karloff's last appearance in the Frankenstein series and stars Donnie Dunagan, then a child actor.
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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
