Mandy Moore Quotes
I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I want every Grammy.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.
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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.
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I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.
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I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
