Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.

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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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In our house, we do everything whole: whole milk and full-fat cheeses. And I use ghee and coconut oil for cooking.
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I'm not one for Knute Rockne speeches and so I'm not going to start now. I did tell the kids the other night that they are my favorite team not because of the success we've had on the court. But because of the kind of people they are. They are just a tremendous group of young men.
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Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
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Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.