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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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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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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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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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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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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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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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
