Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.
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My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.
