Madchen Amick Quotes
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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In the United States, I always say that what makes America exceptional is not the fact that we’re perfect, it's the fact that we struggle to improve. We're self-critical. We work to live up to our highest values and ideals, knowing that we're not always going to achieve them perfectly, but we keep on trying to perfect our union.
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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
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'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
