Amy Carlson Quotes
If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.
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I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.
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I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.
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If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.
