Amy Webb Quotes
While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
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We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.
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I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.
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If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.
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All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
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While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
