Amy Adams Quotes
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
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One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.
