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.
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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.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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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.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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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.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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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.
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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.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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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.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
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I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.
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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.
