Amy Heckerling Quotes
I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.
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If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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Never regret what you don't write.
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You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.
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'You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason-if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.'
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Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: «Cherchez la femme!»
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Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
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Happy? Poor, ordinary, everyday word. But what could one say, how could one describe it? It was as though she could hardly stay inside herself, it was as though she were too small to hold so much of joy, it was as though she were washed through with light. And how astonishing to feel this sheer bliss, for here she was, not doing and not going to do a single unselfish thing, not going to do a thing she didn't want to do. ... Now she had taken off all her goodness and left it behind her like a heap in rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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I just drove. I could have driven forever. I don’t know how I managed to find my spot in the desert, but I found it. It was as if I had a compass hidden somewhere inside me. One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.
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I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.
