Amy Adams Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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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.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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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.
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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.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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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.
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In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
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Teaching is in my blood.
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A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.
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Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.
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I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'
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I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.
