Amy Plum Quotes
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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It's nice when people approach you to help.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
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I was never interested in being an overly public person.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
