Amy Macdonald Quotes
I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
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That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
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The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
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The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.
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Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.
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I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
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Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.
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Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.
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'Cockneys vs. Zombies' does exactly what it says on the tin.
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What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
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Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
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I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.
