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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The last thing we want is to make people think we're going back on our word.
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Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
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Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
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Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.
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I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
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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.
