Amanda Burton Quotes
I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.Amanda Burton
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup -
I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
Kate Beckinsale -
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi -
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner -
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie -
Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
Radhanath Swami
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi -
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
J. Tillman -
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
Sally Kirkland -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
Frances Bean Cobain -
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
P. J. O'Rourke
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I don't let anything kill my spirit.
Uday Kiran -
I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
Fedor Emelianenko -
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian -
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
Felix Dennis -
My literary success meant nothing to me.
Taylor Caldwell
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You could be a corrupt doctor, but at least you have to go to the medical school first. Right?
David Fahrenthold -
During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
Fidel Castro -
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.
Jenny Offill -
One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you."
Mother Teresa -
What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.
F. B. Meyer -
I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.
Amanda Burton