Amy Richards Quotes
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
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Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
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Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough with the issues to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
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Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.
