Madchen Amick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
-
I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
-
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
-
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
-
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
-
It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
-
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
-
If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
-
I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
-
There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.
-
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
-
My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.
-
Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.
-
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
-
Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.
-
Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.
-
A low budget is uncomfortable.
-
I make notes about things I see in films that really affect me, like the ending of 'Jules and Jim.' I think about how I can utilize things in my work. And I have a team of people who keep me down to earth.
-
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
-
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-
I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.
-
I don't like doing what people would expect of me.
-
It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
