Ami McKay Quotes
How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.
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I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.
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How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.
