Amanda Bennett Quotes
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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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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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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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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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I want to work to help all those working a lifetime to be confident they will have a secure and dignified retirement.
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
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