Amy Williams Quotes
It was kind of a lot to take in, but it was extremely interesting. It makes you think about how many problems there really are with racial identity. It opens your eyes and changes your perspective of the world and what you thought was normal.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
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It was kind of a lot to take in, but it was extremely interesting. It makes you think about how many problems there really are with racial identity. It opens your eyes and changes your perspective of the world and what you thought was normal.
