Amy Koppelman Quotes
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
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Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
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I would rather see words out on their own, away from their families and the warehouse of Roget wandering the world where they sometimes fall in love with a completely different word.
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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.
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Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
