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Amy Heckerling Quotes

I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.

Amy Heckerling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: May 7, 1954

Topics

Growing Up Growing Hollywood Way See

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Maya Lin

Life Character Art Architecture

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

Sinead O'Connor

Feel You Say Own Dig Your

Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

Matt Bomer

Character Think You Playing Role

I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.

Mike Mignola

Love Job Book Think Doing You

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.

Michel Faber

Love Thought Language Drawing Kid

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Michel Foucault

Life Art Me Society Become Only

Perhaps there should be a box on the census form that says, 'I'm a criminal.' Everyone who has ever committed a crime would be required to check it. If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citizenship to those branded felons.

Michelle Alexander

Citizenship Crime Nation Box Own

I feel more satisfaction - and attach greater value - to providing assists then scoring myself.

Dimitri Payet

Myself Value Feel Satisfaction More

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

Dominic Chianese

Hope Great Man Think Play Achieve

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

Dennis Ritchie

Work Ideas Colleagues Plan Group

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

Anne Reid

Life You Know Never Going Throw

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

Anne-Marie

Me Writing Theatre Singing Write