Amy Webb Quotes
We’ve made a devil’s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
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Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
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My choice is what I choose to be.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.
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If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
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We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
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In a choice between love and fear, choose love.
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Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
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What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
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First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.
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Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.
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We’ve made a devil’s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.
