A.M. Homes Quotes
I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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Tech never comes back the same.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.
