Amy Harmon Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.
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The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
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Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail.
