Amy Adams Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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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 guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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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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I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.
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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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That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
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We look at Marvel, but we're not trying to emulate that in any way. In fact, we talked often about how distinctive what we're trying to do with 'Star Wars' is from Marvel. They've been extremely successful in exploiting the characters in that universe, and we have a place. We have the galaxy.
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The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
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Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.
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I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.
