Amy Brenneman Quotes
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
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There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be.
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Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.
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I'm just really a lazy homebody.
