Amy Lee (Amy Lynn Hartzler) Quotes
If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
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I used to throw on soundtracks, and orchestral stuff would be the only thing I could write to, maybe 'Dead Can Dance' or 'Cocteau Twins' or something. Mostly, it was movies scores that would kind of inspire me.
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If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy.
