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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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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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 agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
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There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
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The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.
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Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.
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