Andy Rooney Quotes
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I don't like controversy.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
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I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell - urggh!
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.
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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
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In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
