Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.Amanda de Cadenet
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
Jack Black -
I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani -
I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
Abbey Clancy -
I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
Bebe Rexha -
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey -
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
Rachel McAdams
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
L. E. Modesitt -
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
Edmund Phelps -
When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
Wayne Newton -
When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
Earl Monroe -
So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
Vince McMahon
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
Warren Farrell -
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid -
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
Bea Arthur -
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke -
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.
Beau Willimon
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My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.
Camila Alves -
The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful.
Jennifer Connelly -
Aside from an unwholesome taste for string quartets, and a certain gullibility about predigested sociology, she passed the McGee test with about a B+. Hell, an A-. Maybe somebody had given her the Vance Packard books.
John D. MacDonald -
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
William Faulkner -
You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
Dan Gilbert -
While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.
Amanda de Cadenet