Amy Heckerling Quotes
I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.
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I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
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Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.
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I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
