Amber Frey Quotes
I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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I like to take a day off and enjoy fast food for what it is. I have to say that in New York, I'm really partial about taco trucks. I mean, I really can't handle it. There is something about catching all those ingredients piled on top of each other: it puts me in a tizzy. I love it. I'm kind of a taco truck junkie.
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It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.
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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
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I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
