Marissa Moss Quotes
Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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I never got a chance to be a teenager.
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Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
