Amy Jo Martin Quotes
While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.
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Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
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Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.
