Amy Heckerling Quotes
When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.
Quotes to Explore
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.
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I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
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I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.
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Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.
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When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.
