Amanda Foreman Quotes
We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.
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Sometimes in politics and even in life you need to take the tough and difficult decisions which you know would be good for you and the country in the medium and long term
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You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.
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A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives.
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The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.
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I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
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If on some occasion I happen to read something in it - because, for instance, I neet to know a date - I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.
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The world was fragile. One day, growth; the next day, kindling.
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Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.
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We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.
