Andy Summers Quotes
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
