Andrew Shaffer Quotes

The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.

Andrew Shaffer

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WritingVillainSomeoneEasyYou

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Jesus Christ

LoveGoodFatherRainSunEvil

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

John McCain

LifeLoveBestWorldMy LifeKnow

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LoveHopeDeathListeningNight

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Andy Goldsworthy

WorkI AmPeopleNeedMovementSome

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Tommy Shaw

BalanceMeSongwritingOutSide

When I was a kid, if someone had asked who I'd meet if it could be anyone in the world, it would've been Liam Brady.

Tony McCoy

WorldSomeoneMeetKidBeenWho

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Tom Peters

WorkWayCraftTopSameApproach

No one wants to get beat up in front of the world.

CM Punk

WorldUpBeatGetWantsFront

Going to the Comic Cons and meeting people - that's a fun energy to be around.

Cobie Smulders

FunPeopleEnergyMeetingGoing

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Augusten Burroughs

YourselfForwardGivingLuxuryYou

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.

Wong Kar-wai

DecisionProblemsYouCircumstances

The highest-caliber dramatic work produced for TV - not just in cable but something like 'The Good Wife' at network - is consistently great.

Todd Haynes

WorkGoodGreatWifeGood WifeJust

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