Amelia Barr Quotes
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.
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Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
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90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
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The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
