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In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.

Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.