Shawn Amos (Shawn Ellis Amos) Quotes

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

Shawn Amos

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• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Curiosity
  • Devotion
  • Less

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• It's great fun to play with a really good band.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fun

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Running
  • Me
  • Serious

• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Because
  • Price
  • Oil

• When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Good
  • Team
  • Good Things

• I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Smart
  • Dumb
  • Complain

• More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Fate
  • Litigating

• For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Culture
  • Connection

• We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

  

  James Gleick
  • Devil

• 'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Giving

• Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

  

  Andre Kostelanetz
  • Calm

• Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

  

  Plutarch

• The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  

  Elizabeth Dole
  • Why
  • Free
  • Serious

• I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Up
  • Great
  • Chicago

• Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • Good
  • Today
  • College

• It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Bad
  • Gossip

• I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Moments

• Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

  

  David D. Burns
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

  

  Shawn Amos
  • Father
  • Talent
  • Careers