Amy B. Harris Quotes
I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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You never know what's going to happen. In a game where you're down by 20, you're still trying to win the game.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
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I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.
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I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.
