Amy Carlson Quotes
I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.
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Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no 'good guns'. There are no 'bad guns'. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
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For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.
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I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.
