AJ Michalka (Amanda Joy Michalka) Quotes
For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product.
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Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
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Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.
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Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
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Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.
