Amy Van Dyken Quotes
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.
