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 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 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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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet.
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We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting.
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Our environments are always both human and other than human.
