Amy Gerstler Quotes
Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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No one person is an island.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.
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I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.
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The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
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Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
