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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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 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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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
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I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
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To say that the U.S. economy benefits from trade is not to say that every individual American worker or family benefits, or that the structural changes induced by trade are not disruptive.
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We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
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To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
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The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
