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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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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'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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All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals - to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
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It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
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I think Shah Rukh and I have done essentially romantic films that had great contributions from everyone else, so it's not as if we alone are responsible for our hits.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.
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I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
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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.
