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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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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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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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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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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If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my grandfather - a British army officer. I remember as a child having bowls of chicken soup made by her. There were lots of interesting components, like feet and necks.
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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.
