Amy Richards Quotes
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
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I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
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I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.
