Amy Lowell Quotes
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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I think music changes and it evolves.
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I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.
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I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
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Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
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My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.
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Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.
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My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
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When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe.
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I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.
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In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
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Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.
