Madchen Amick Quotes
'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.
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I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
