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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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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'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 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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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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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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Frankly, reviews are mostly for people who still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.
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I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
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The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.
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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.
