Amy Adams Quotes

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Drink
  • Judgment
  • Clouds

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Desire
  • Justice
  • Passionate

• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Architecture
  • Advertising

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Successful

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Poverty
  • Living
  • Security

• When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • You
  • Running

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Man
  • Sometimes
  • Child

• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Words

• I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • People
  • Country
  • Food

• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Eggs
  • Fresh
  • Farm

• There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Fashion

• When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Smart

• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  

  David G. McAfee
  • Nature
  • Opinion
  • Ancient

• I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

  

  Amy Adams