Amy Adams Quotes
It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.
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For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
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Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.
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To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
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People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
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Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.
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It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.
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It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
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I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.
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I haven't played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.
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I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.
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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.
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It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.
