Amy Waldman Quotes
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.
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We got a thousand points of lightFor the homeless man.We got a kinder, gentler,Machine gun hand.We got department storesAnd toilet paperGot styrofoam boxesFor the ozone layer.Got a man of the people,Says keep hope aliveGot fuel to burn,Got roads to drive.
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I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.
