Amy Hempel Quotes
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
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I'm really interested in food now. I never used to be. I always used to just eat when I'm hungry, and now it's an experience.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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I hated being a public company CEO.
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
