Amber Cope Quotes
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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You never needed anybody.If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
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I genuinely think I have a hugging superpower. I'm starting to master the transformative hug. I have a strange memory ability. There's a lot of information that I don't cognitively know, but that seems to rise up at moments of need. That feels like a superpower. Something that nobody knows about me is that I discovered at a young age that I could sing in two tones. I don't do this in performance, because it's something very special to me. But I've learned that it's a practice that goes back far in time.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
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Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.
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The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.
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I take classes to be a mortician.
