Amanda Bennett Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
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