Amy Heckerling Quotes
I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
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David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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I am immortal! I know it! I feel it! Hope floods my heart with delight! Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling, Upward I mount, - faith is sight, life is feeling, Hope is the day-star of might!
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I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.
