Amy Adams Quotes
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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I went to a pretty small school from the beginning all the way up, so I knew everyone, everyone knew me.
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Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.
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I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
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I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
