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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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 never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.
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I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
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'Give us cash! I steal from the rich and give to the poor! I'm trying to be a myth; give us cash!' 'No, I'm not gonna give you cash.' 'Go on, I steal from the rich. Are you rich?' 'No, I'm … comfortable.' 'That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?'
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My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
