Amber Stevens Quotes
My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
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I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
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I don't want to make niche-oriented music.
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In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?
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'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'
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Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm, or whatever you believe in, or love.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
