Amanda Burton Quotes
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
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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.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I never was a very good singer.
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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.
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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.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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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!
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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.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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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.
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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.
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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
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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.
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When you create art, the world has to wait.
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See! he sinksWithout a word; and his ensanguined bierIs vacant in the west, while far and nearBehold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cryAmid thy cloud-built streets.
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Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
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Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
