Amanda Burton Quotes
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And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
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I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
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As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.
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Immigration security, we need to protect American jobs. We need to protect American safety. We're going to build a wall folks, don't worry, we're going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your heads will spin. And you'll say, 'you know, know he meant it!' And you know what else I mean? Mexico is going to pay for the wall.
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Acting and singing are integrally locked together.
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No, I always wanted to be an actress.
