Amy Jackson Quotes
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.
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'2.0' is an entirely new thing in Indian cinema, a movie to watch out for.
