Amanda Burton Quotes
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
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The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!
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Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
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If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
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I love driving in the city at night.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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I am a very complicated person.
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Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write.
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Wish I had concentrated; they said love was complicated. But it was something I just fell into. And it was overrated, but just look what I created!
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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
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Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.
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It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.
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I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….
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A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.
