Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
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We must take all that territory away from ISIS.
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A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
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Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with
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Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it was very easy to learn because it was so well-written. It just rolled off the tongue. There aren't many auditions that I go for, where I feel like I could actually do the part. But with this one, even though I was not quite sure how to pin Dirk down, I thought I could do it.
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There is great concern in the European Union about the need for Syria to take much more action to control terrorism in its territory and from its territory.
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
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Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.
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'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.
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Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
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There is a grim and ghastly humor -- the humor that is born of a pathetic philosophy -- which now and then strikes me in reading the bright and keen-witted work of our American paragraphers. It is a humor that may be crystallized by hunger and sorrow and tears. It is not found elsewhere as it is in America. It is out of the question in England, because an Englishman cannot poke fun at himself. He cannot joke about an empty flour-barrel. We can: especially if by doing it we may swap the joke for another barrel of flour. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks out there who are interested in thinking about themselves and the world through a prism. The prism is a labor and there can be a pleasure in labor.
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
