Amanda Seales Quotes
I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Every choice you make has an end result.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.
