Amy Heckerling Quotes
I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.
