Ami Vitale Quotes
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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When I first started working with World Vision, I would sit down and talk with them about issues that concern any part of the world. MSF told me about what was going on in North Korea. I also support AIDS and breast cancer charities.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.
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When you represent in your work shadows which you can only discern with difficulty, and of which you cannot distinguish the edges so that you apprehend them confusedly, you must not make them sharp or definite lest your work should have a wooden effect.
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Down in dry county
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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Tunnel vision can kill creativity.
