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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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
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Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
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I'm just really a lazy homebody.
