Amy Landecker Quotes

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

Amy Landecker

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• I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • New
  • Friday
  • Rather

• I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Comedy
  • I Can
  • Where

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Special
  • Her
  • Super

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Hero

• A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Society
  • Humanity

• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Done
  • Style
  • Leave

• Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Man
  • Say
  • Contemporary

• My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Family
  • Girl

• Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Real
  • Perfect

• Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Children
  • Driving

• Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Responsibility
  • Special

• For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Music
  • Stars
  • Wine

• The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Guitar
  • Camera
  • Vintage

• The yielding marble of her snowy breast.

  

  Edmund Waller

• I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Play
  • Secret
  • Subconscious

• It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Moving

• There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors, metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (they can eat sitting down only in 20 minute shifts) and an auditorium which has no windows. It does have murals, however, depicting mute, muscular harvesters, faded and immobilized under a mustard sun. That's where we had assembly this morning.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Morning
  • Building
  • Hostile

• There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Culture
  • Responsibility

• Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

  

  Amy Landecker