Amy Gerstler Quotes
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I would love to be a role model.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.
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I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.
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Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
