Shawn Amos (Shawn Ellis Amos) Quotes
Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
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One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
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I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
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Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
