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 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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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
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Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
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People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
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To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
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I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I'm glad I wrote them - I think it was a good experience.
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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.
