Morey Amsterdam Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.
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I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.
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It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
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It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
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I think I can finally say I am at my most confident and comfortable out there, physically.
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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
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Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.
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People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door
