Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

I try to make things that are not elitist.

Amanda de Cadenet

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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Cool

• I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Born

• When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Speak
  • Celebrity
  • Media

• My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Job
  • Professional
  • First

• The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • More
  • Down

• We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Man
  • Hand

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Religious
  • India
  • Temples

• When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • You
  • Old
  • Sunday

• I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Strong

• How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Bad
  • Angry
  • Say

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  

  Quintilian
  • Impression
  • Fault
  • Excellent

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Know
  • Genius
  • Insanity

• Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movie
  • You
  • Try

• Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • World
  • Society
  • Darkness

• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Night
  • Giving

• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

  

  Emily Eden
  • Fool
  • Secret
  • Instinct

• Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Nation

• I try to make things that are not elitist.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet