Andy Weir Quotes
I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.
