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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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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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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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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It appears dubious whether a field theory can account for the atomistic structure of matter and radiation as well as of quantum phenomena.
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
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No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
