Amy Davidson Quotes
The use of criminal law as a discretionary political tool is why, historically, some people have wanted to leave other countries to come here. Trump put an ugly smudge on that beacon
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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God does arithmetic.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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Often when times are good and when the US is on good diplomatic terms with China, the Chinese are viewed as a bridge between the two countries.
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I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
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The use of criminal law as a discretionary political tool is why, historically, some people have wanted to leave other countries to come here. Trump put an ugly smudge on that beacon
