Amelia Barr Quotes
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the reader, then the advertisers will follow to reach those readers.
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Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!” To class she went only once. “I don’t go back,” she said emphatically. “Too foolish book, Dick and Jane.” She shrugged disdainfully. “Not Tolstoi!"
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.
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You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
