A Quotes
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“As much as i knew about the ins and outs of the human mind, i couldn’t help wanting my own to work differently.”
Source: Twelve
“As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.”
“as much as I let Elliot into my emotional headspace, I was never able to let anyone else in afterward. It was too hard.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.”
“As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers.”
Source: A Window Opens
“As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.”
“As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.”
“As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them”
“As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.”
“As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.”
“As much as I love acting and I hope to be doing it for a long time, it almost feels more natural for me to be a producer. I came into all of this because I'm a fan of movies and I wanted to find any way I could to be a part of it all. I happened to take the acting route but it could have been a million different ways in. Now that I'm producing it's just really fun for me to work with people that I really admire and put people together who I think will work well together. Just having a little more control.”
“As much as I love and have benefited from artificial intelligence, I believe that only people can discover such things and then program computers to do them. That's why I believe that the right people, working with each other and with computers, are the key to success.”
Source: Principles: Life and Work
“As much as I love and respect my brother, Im doing my best to distance myself from him and kind of show people that, even though we do look similar and have similar mannerisms, we are completely different.”
“As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.”
“As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.”
Source: Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game
“As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.”
“As much as I love computers, I can't imagine getting an excellent education from any multimedia system. Rather than augmenting the teacher, these machines steal limited class time and direct attention away from scholarship and toward pretty graphics.”
Source: High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
“As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.”
“As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.”
“As much as I love hiking and hunting and fishing and camping, I might love the meals that follow just as much. The post-adventure meal is akin to a religious experience. It just cannot be beat. Every time I leave the mountains or woods, my mind turns to where I can get a good greasy meal and cold beverage. And no matter how grubby the restaurant is or how piss poor the food looks, it always ends up being the best meal I've ever had. Always.”
Source: That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
“As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.”
“As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.”
“As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.”
“As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone, as we all are on the planet, after all. Every atom in us is originally from a star. And during my moments of aloneness, I'm most mindful of that; that I'm just another group of matter randomly but wonderfully arranged. That's when I feel my immortality.”
“As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.”
“As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.”
“As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.”
“As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I still move very well and all of that - I'm really not a dancer anymore.”
“As much as I love to see the sun setting behind a city skyline,
and to feel the pure majesty of a wild river or soaring mountain,
and to fade, then disappear into a transcendent book, song or film,
I am always most astounded, moved and transported by the warmth
and kindness of a loving person. Always.”
“As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.”
“As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!”
“As much as I'm turned on by your buff, sexy body pressing against mine, if you could please roll off of me, I'll get my guns.”
Source: Profile of Terror
“As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it.”
“As much as I moved to New York and tried to work in theater as much as I could - I developed a relationship with Circle Rep - make no mistake about it, I really, really wanted to be in a film. It seemed like almost everyone I knew at least did something in a movie, except me.”
“As much as I really wanted to give the judges my take on gefilte fish (which was and is SO much better than that slimy, mealy garbage you get in the jar), obviously, that wasn't going to work for a vegetarian challenge. So what did I have up my----latkes! Of course. I hadn't made latkes yet. And I could easily gussy them up. I made an excellent version with parsnips to go with the normal potatoes and onions. I could make a fancy cream to complement it, and homemade cranberry applesauce, and make sure the edges were perfectly lacy and crisp...”
Source: Sadie on a Plate
“As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.”
“As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.”
“As much as I think about sex, I can only with extreme difficulty conceive of myself actually performing the act. And here's another thing I wonder about. How could you ever look a girl in the eye after you've had your winkie up her wendell? I mean, doesn't that render normal social conversation impossible? Apparently not.”
Source: Youth in Revolt
“As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.”
“As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.”
“As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.”
“As much as I tried not to on general principles, I had to agree with him this time.”
Source: Age of Expansion: A Dungeon Core Dark LitRPG Adventure
“As much as I try to be present, it just doesn't really feel like reality. It feels like a fleeting thing. There's a million other incredibly wonderful girls that are much more talented than me that are out there all the time. So I'm just trying to appreciate it for what it is. But I don't want it to take on that feeling of pressure, because I don't know where that's gonna get me.”
“As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.”
“As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.”
“As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.”
“As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.”
“As much as I want to know, what images or fantasies run through your mind when we make love; about your experiences in the past – what gave you the most pleasure, what you would most wish to repeat, what your deepest desires might be, and how I might help you to fulfil them – I am too shy to ask.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“As much as I want to stay on the team -- I love Chicago, I love the Bulls -- at the same time, I know the business part of it. Sooner or later, all the rumors are going to come up.”