Amy Shearn Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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Dress how you're comfortable. Wear the makeup that you're comfortable in - or don't wear it.
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Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
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It is legal because I wish it.
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But just because we're conditioned to view some things as disgusting and immoral doesn't mean that some things aren't, in actual point of fact, disgusting and immoral. Human sacrifice, for instance. Or cannibalism. Or Ann Coulter.
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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
