Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.
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I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.
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Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.
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I've wanted to interview Hillary Clinton since I was 15 years old.
