Amelia Barr Quotes
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
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Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.
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There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
