Andrew Haigh Quotes

For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'

Andrew Haigh

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We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

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I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

Stephen Karam

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I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Roy Orbison

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I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

Rufus Sewell

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You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Michael Sheen

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I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.

Jon Gruden

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I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

Jonathan Demme

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The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

Doug TenNapel

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My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

Donald Fagen

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For the most part, people are proud of the place from which they come.

Cheech Marin

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If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.

Cornelia Parker

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Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.

Clint Smith

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