Amanda Bynes Quotes
I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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I want to be my own person. I want to make a name for myself instead of having the name attached to me.
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Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.
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In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
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I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.
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I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
