Amy Ziering Quotes

Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.

Amy Ziering

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Nothing

• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Singing

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

  

  Beck
  • Write
  • Just
  • Go

• I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • America
  • Think
  • New York

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • World
  • Great
  • Humanity

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • She
  • Hand

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Know
  • Change

• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Today
  • Education

• If ballots won't work, bullets will.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Work
  • Will
  • Bullets

• If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

  

  Idris Elba
  • Why
  • Black
  • Impossible

• I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Father
  • Growing

• The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Culture

• Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • World
  • War
  • Together

• In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Important
  • Theatre

• There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Girl
  • Opportunity
  • Diverse

• The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured if I'm having trouble finding clothes for me, being curvy, I know girls with my body type are probably facing the same issue. And so with the help of my designer, I came up with the idea of creating my own clothing line.

  

  Coco Austin
  • Up
  • Why
  • Help

• I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Important
  • Children
  • Dad

• Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.

  

  Amy Ziering
  • Focus
  • Ambitious
  • Diverse