Amy Heckerling Quotes
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
Chaka Fattah -
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.
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We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be the "in music" at the time.
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I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
