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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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
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It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.
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One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'
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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.
