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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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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In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
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Being with my kids is the best, most fun thing; it's a privilege.
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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.
