Amy Wright Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.
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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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Our environments are always both human and other than human.
