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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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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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry Hopkins says he's not and that he doesn't want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.
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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.
