Andy Serkis Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.
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I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'
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I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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J.J. Abrams is an all-time hero of mine, really lovely to be working with him.
