Amy King Quotes
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.
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There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
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Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.
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Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
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Words shld be free. Release them from their sentences.
