Amy Heckerling Quotes

I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

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• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

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• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

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• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

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• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

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• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

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• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  

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• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

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• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

  

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• I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.

  

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• One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

  

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• Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

  

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• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

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• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  

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• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

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• My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.

  

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• The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.

  

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• Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

  

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• 'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

  

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• I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.

  

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• I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.

  

  Amy Heckerling
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