Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes
Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.
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I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.
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I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.
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When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.
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Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
