Amy Hardie Quotes
We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
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I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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We choose mania over boredom every time.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.
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You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
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My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.
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I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.
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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Because the brain can be guided by rational calculation only in a limited degree, it must fall back on the nuances of pleasure and pain mediated by the limbic system and other lower centers of the brain.
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Your whole perspective changes on what's possible. You can make dreams happen.
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I just don't think I'm a very good singer.
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We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.
