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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I'm winning the fight, just keep going after it.
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I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.
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I've always had a little pooch. I just always have - that's just my body type. No matter how skinny I've been, it's always there. And now that I've had kids, I sort of don't mind as much because, you know what? What my stomach and my body went through is truly a miracle.
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
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I can't imagine that I will ever be on anything like 'M*A*S*H' again.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
