Amy Shearn Quotes
When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.
Quotes to Explore
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A busybody's work is never done.
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As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.
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Piano feels soft. Violins and all different string instruments feel soft. Guitar, even electric guitar before you start adding distortion, that you can play soft.
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I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.
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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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Happiness is a decision I must make.
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Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.
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My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.
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When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.
