Elise Andrew Quotes
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I've accepted that we've all got crap to deal with and problems that we're fighting not to be defined by. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff: fulfillment, love, support, comfort, and a hot-air balloon with laser guns attached to it. The most important thing is that we appreciate the crazy ride we're on.
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Square meals often make round people.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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No place is ever the same tomorrow.
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
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If you're going to believe crazy things, people are going to laugh at you.
