Amy Argetsinger Quotes
Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.
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You don't need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It's all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy.
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If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.
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My approach is the truth and aiming for the truth.
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.
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You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
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Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
