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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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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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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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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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 don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.
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I'm not a Trump guy, but I do like what he's done with political speak. He's changed the conversation quite a bit. It's interesting to watch that happen.
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One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.
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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
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My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
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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.
