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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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've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know, somebody in Montana's got their version of Mama's biscuits, somebody in California's got their version - so it made me realize that we're not as regionalized as we think we are.
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Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.
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Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
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I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.
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My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. I often feel like I'm pretending, because it's still hard for me to believe it when I see someone holding a book that I've written.
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