Amanda Harlech Quotes
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime.
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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
