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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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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When Nancy Reagan was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to judge her, there was such a floodgate of affection and warmth and physical affection that, most of the time, was kept at bay because, "Oh, someone's going to say something." I think that because of so many things that happened to her in her childhood, but also in the press.
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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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.
