Andy Andrews Quotes

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

Andy Andrews

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If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

Jesse Eisenberg

LifeDayYouActingComfortableWay

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

Anna Paquin

YouFeelingEverythingBeingJust

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

Amity Shlaes

ExpectationsWillLifetimeDropThen

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Stefan Zweig

HistoryMindEnergyPersonSpotlight

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

Shirley Manson

MeBackHoldTemperTidesCould

My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.'

Tom Colicchio

SonSchoolPressureYouSayEat

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

Mike D

SittingWorkingOurFrontLaptops

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Joyce Carol Oates

CharacterAestheticOutShapeEvolve

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

Craig Bruce

I AmThinkUniverseCenterI Think

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

Chuck Berry

BuildAudienceActDifferentWould

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

William Morris

LifeEnoughRewardLabour

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Pope Paul VI

LifeWorkHard WorkTodayStruggle

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