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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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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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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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.
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Just stay real and stay a real person.
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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.
