Andy Rooney Quotes
Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
Quotes to Explore
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.
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Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
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Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
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It was silly to suppose that trials only hardened men, automatically making them wise. He knew many who were stupid, arrogant, and mean, in spite of having suffered.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
