Amy Brenneman Quotes
I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.
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Even Ricardo's most famous accomplishment, the law of comparative advantage in foreign trade, is incomplete, though not wrong.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV.
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When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'
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I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.
