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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Rereading, we find a new book.
Mason Cooley -
It's free of hip dialing. You can have some pretty confidential conversations and not get overheard by the camera man by talking into this flip phone.
Jerry Jones -
Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
Walter O'Brien -
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
J. C. Watts -
There was a Solina string synth at the studio - we couldn’t afford real strings but I prefer fake ones anyway.
Andrew Bell Beady Eye -
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
Amanda Burton