Cleveland Amory Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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There's no regrets for me.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.
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I like Future, Young Thug, Mike WiLL, DJ Spinz, Metro Boomin, Drake, Kendrick.
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The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.
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I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.
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Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.
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The facts of life are very stubborn things.
