Amy Adams Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
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Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
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Whether it's in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response from senior officials, the president or the attorney general, is to vilify law enforcement. That's wrong. It’s fundamentally wrong. It’s endangering all of our safety and security.
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It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.
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Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
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Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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Life is not life at all without delight.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.
