If I go over, you make it work.


Amy Canaday

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If you can't go over, you must go under.
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I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.
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You have to make it happen.
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If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it
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If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
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I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good.
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
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If something excites you, go for it.
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You've gotta go for it, and go for it with gusto.
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a lot of work to do, but if I didn't think he would make progress, I wouldn't have asked him to go.
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You can NEVER go back and start over; you can only make new decisions.
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It's way, way too much pressure if you go overboard at this stage. If you go overboard, it's over.
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I don't make excuses. If you lined my mama up out there, I'd have to catch it over her, too.
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If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depe...
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Treatment is the way to go, ... It can work if you have the right model.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
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I have goals and aspirations, and I believe that you can go after your dreams, and it can work if yo...
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My concern as we go along will be that if you can't pencil it out, it won't work.
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It's a form of terrorism, if you ask me. I hope they go back to work.
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Amy and someone. I don't know who.
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You go to work to have fun, socialize and hopefully make money in the process
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You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
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If you make God your best friend, you can’t go wrong.
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You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work.
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We work really hard. If you don't have fun and humor in this field, then you struggle to make it.
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Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN
No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN
I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN
God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS
I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS
I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS
I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS
If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS
But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS
I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS
I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS
We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS
I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER