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!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Person

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Damage

• 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.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• 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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

• 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.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Purpose
  • Stage
  • Emotions

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• 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.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Health
  • Mental Health

• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Try

• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Good
  • Men
  • Happy

• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Fragrance

• John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

  

  Craig Kilborn

• No, nobody ever really turned the tables on me.

  

  Allen Funt
  • Tables

• You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Job
  • Moral

• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Value

• The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Hope
  • Future
  • See

• 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.

  

  Amy Hempel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women