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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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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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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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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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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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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Our courage comes from the courage of others.
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I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.
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In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
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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.
