Amy Jo Johnson Quotes
I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
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Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
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I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!
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From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.
