Ami McKay Quotes
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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I love cars.
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I love synthesizers and I love electronic music and I love the avant garde and I always want to try and have some kind of element of that in the music. So once the music is put down and recorded, that's when I start to tinker with it using synths.
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None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.
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No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
