Madchen Amick Quotes
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
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I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
