Amanda Burton Quotes

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

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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.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • World
  • Question
  • Ego

• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Want
  • Equality

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Me
  • Serious
  • Become

• So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Best
  • Say
  • Worst

• Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Stupid
  • Hands
  • Talent

• I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Me
  • Said
  • Communication

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Earth
  • Building

• 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.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Love
  • House

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• 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.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Me
  • Question
  • Religion

• Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?

  

  Orson Scott Card

• 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?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Lost
  • Failure

• A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Society

• Think'st thou existence doth depend on time?It doth; but actions are our epochs: mineHave made my days and nights imperishableEndless, and all alike, as sands on the shoreInnumerable atoms; and one desertBarren and cold, on which the wild waves break,But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Time
  • Cold
  • Waves

• I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

  

  Fritz Kreisler
  • Wife

• I have always kept my beauty regime super simple, but I would say discovering you could use coconut oil to take off eye-makeup remover has been a game changer.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Game
  • Simple
  • Makeup

• The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Loved
  • Dead
  • Mourn

• I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Past
  • Single
  • Look

• The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been clear that deporting young people who have lived in the U.S. for years and were brought here through no fault of their own as children should not be the targets of deportation.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • People
  • Children

• No, I always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Amanda Burton