Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.
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Age for me is just a number.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
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If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.
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I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.
