Finn Andrews quotes

I think everything obviously comes from experience of some kind. It's more about if you closely adhere to that experience or if you extrapolate from it.
-- Finn Andrews

#Thinking #Kind #Ifs

I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.
-- Finn Andrews

#Thinking #Done #Courses

I believe in currently unexplainable things, magic can get dicey.
-- Finn Andrews

#Believe #Magic #Unexplainable

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.
-- Finn Andrews

#Kids #Animal #Parent

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.
-- Finn Andrews

#Giving Up #Writing #Talking

When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going to this folk club in Auckland. My dad [Barry Andrews] was in punk and post-punk bands, so I guess it was a side of music I hadn't really listened to before - the really narrative form of songwriting.
-- Finn Andrews

#Dad #Band #Clubs

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

There are many movies that I like, but I'm not sure if they have inspired me.

Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.

Now c'mon - if we die, we die cool.

If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.