Shawn Amos (Shawn Ellis Amos) Quotes
Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
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That's the most memorable one, but it's not the most fun to remember.
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It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
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I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
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The 'Net is a waste of time.
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During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
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It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.
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I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was an important part of my life.
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But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust...
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.
