Amanda Burton Quotes
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.Amanda Burton
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas -
I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
T. J. Miller -
I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne -
In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
Walt Mossberg -
The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
Orison Swett Marden -
God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
Camille Paglia -
I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
Irvin D. Yalom -
The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
Sacha Guitry -
My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
Sam Donaldson -
I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
Viggo Mortensen -
And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
Wayne Gretzky
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Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
Barbara Steele -
Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
Warren Farrell -
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.
Irving Kristol -
My mother would write letters when I was away at camp and say, 'There's an Ann-shaped space around the house. Nobody fills an Ann-shaped space except an Ann.' I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.
Ann B. Davis -
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.
Brunello Cucinelli
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It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.
Trisha Yearwood -
I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
Joel Edgerton -
You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.
Li Ka-shing -
The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.
Frank Deford -
Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't
Lady Gaga -
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
Amanda Burton