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Amy Heckerling Quotes

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

Amy Heckerling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Treat Person Movies Fair Pretty Who

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

Maurice Wilkins

Life Growth Natural Genetic Able

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Marriage New York People Think Fate

Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

Jeffrey Kluger

Hurt Holiday Table Little Cash Away

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Michael J. Fox

Walk Stand Short You Apple Actor

I obsess too much.

Meredith Brooks

Too Much Much Too Obsess

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Amber Benson

Dreams Your Dreams Amazing World

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

John Shimkus

Life Quality Quality Of Life Pro-Life

I'm very light, so some people don't really know that I'm black. I've been in situations where people will say something kind of racist, and I'll step in, and they'll be like, 'Oh, well, you're light.' That still doesn't cut it, buddy.

Sofia Richie

Light Step People Black You Know

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

Louis C. K.

People You Know True Dead Out

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.

Julia Glass

Dreams Business Son Time Singing

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

Dhanush

Love Success Failure Music Food

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

David Sedaris

Love Time Me Writing Feel Know