Amy Sarig King (A.S. King) Quotes
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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I never lie to my fans.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
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Frankly, I don't like publicity.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
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I love my country. I love my family.
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Senators, representatives too often, we hear from our base, don't talk to the other side, don't with work with them.
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As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.
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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
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We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
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It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.
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Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than
