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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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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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
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I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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You can't just look like one culture and expect to inspire a multitude of people. That doesn't work over time. Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.
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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.
