Amy Lowell Quotes
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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Imagination rules the world.
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It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.
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I hope to see London once ere I die.
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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
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I do love gymnastics, but it's such an intense sport and you have to be so committed. It's such a commitment that it's really hard to do anything else other than gymnastics as people progress.
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It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense to me to be as whole and well as I could be, and as happy. I wanted to see what a fortunate life would produce. What writing would come out of a mind that didn’t try to torment itself? What did I have to know? What did I have to do rather than what can I torment and bend myself into doing? What was the fruit on that tree?
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
