Ami McKay Quotes
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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We want you to pay attention.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.
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When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
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Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
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Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.
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I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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Imagination is the mightiest despot.
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My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
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Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.
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A girl should command attention, not suffer it.
