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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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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The more times people laugh, the better the film is.
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Tomorrow is going to be really tough because there are a lot of guys going really fast ... right now I'm not consistently fast enough (to win) ... but we'll definitely go for it.
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I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.
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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.
