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 be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Computers
  • Trial
  • Fees

• 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 call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• 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

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Eyes

• 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
  • Me
  • Running
  • 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

• Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan't be blamed for harboring grudges.I know one hound that laughed all winterAt a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

  

  Ogden Nash

• 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

• If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Family
  • Community

• 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

• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

  

  Christopher Monckton
  • Sunshine

• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Doing
  • Turn

• 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