Amy Jo Martin Quotes
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
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Age for me is just a number.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.
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I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.
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You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
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When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.
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I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.
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It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.
