Amy Pietz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.
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Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.
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Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.
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I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.
-- Amy Pietz
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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
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Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.
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Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.
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I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.
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I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
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