Amanda Lee Williford (Willa Ford) Quotes
The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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What's important to me is people just being people.
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It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.
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Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents -- trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains -- and surrendering all hold on the familiar act you call 'me'.
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I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.
