Amy Coney Barrett Quotes
It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.
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Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
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It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.
