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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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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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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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.
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The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.
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