Andy Rooney Quotes
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
-
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
-
Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
-
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
-
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
-
You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
-
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
-
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
-
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
-
One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
-
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
-
As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
-
In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
-
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
-
My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
-
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
-
I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
-
What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
-
A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.
-
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
-
It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.
-
I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.
-
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
