Amanda Burton Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
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It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.
