Amelia Barr Quotes
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
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Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the old to the new, easily and peacefully.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
