Christiane Amanpour Quotes
If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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My father is an amazing person.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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I've got Christian Louboutin' s 6 1/4-inch Equestria boots. I wear them so much, I turned the red bottoms brown!
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I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.
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If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
