Amanda Smith Quotes
I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.
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I feel powerless all the time, but I regain my energy by making a very small difference that won’t cost me much.
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I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
