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.
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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.
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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.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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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.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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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.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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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.
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
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If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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No one is accountable anymore for anything.
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I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
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My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.
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But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.
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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.
