Christiane Amanpour Quotes
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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Pain is never permanent.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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I want to show everybody the diverse me and show people that I can do a tune on an R&B song, I can do a tune on a house song, I can do something on an Afrobeat. I really want to show that.
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You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.
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I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
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I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
