Wally Amos Quotes
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
Quotes to Explore
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I want to be a major force.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.
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The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.
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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.
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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
