Amy Adams Quotes
I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.
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I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
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Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
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I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
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The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
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The wise are above books.
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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.
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'Friends' is easy to dismiss, but it's really good television - the art with which those actors play with comedy shouldn't be denigrated. And they also know how to play irony, which I think a lot of English actors might find quite difficult.
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I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.