Amity Gaige Quotes
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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Great men marry great women.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
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What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.
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The last time I talked to Axl was in 1996. That was the last time we exchanged any sort of words. There was a rumor that I talked to him a while back and asked to rejoin the band. I did go to his house one night, and I talked to his assistant about something that had to do with this lawsuit that we were involved in. But it got turned into something else. He went out and made a press release that said I actually spoke to him, which was all bullshit. I was really shocked.
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I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
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I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
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Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
