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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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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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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Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
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I don't think anybody in the NFL is tied to each other.
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I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.
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In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.
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Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?
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No, I always wanted to be an actress.
