Amanda Seales Quotes
My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
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I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different... and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person... there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.
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When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.
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Without God, for me, I'm not the best version of myself.
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I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
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Do you want to be the girl that's envied, or do you want to be the girl that inspires you? Most people don't know that I am super shy and timid, but online people think I have a big personality. Make sure whatever you do has an overall message and has value.
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The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
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I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
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No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.
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Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.
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By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
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My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
