Amity Gaige Quotes
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.
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Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
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To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.
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My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
