Amy Hoggart Quotes
I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.
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My family were really poor.
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If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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I’ve watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It’s become what I call coercive compassion. It’s disgusting, it’s condescending, it’s insulting, it’s coddling, it keeps everyone in an infantile condition rather than in the adult condition that was the ultimate goal of Freudian analysis.
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I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
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I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.
