Amy Heckerling Quotes
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
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When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
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He was a revealing symbol. He called himself passive-aggressive. There was self-pity, whining. There was a diminishment, a diminution. He was sitting there in his sweater, hunched over his guitar, looking like a little lost boy. Compare that with the great figures of my generation: Jimi Hendrix. Pete Townshend. Keith Richards.
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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
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Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
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Concordia discors.
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When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.
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It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.
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NYU was my comfort zone.
