Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.
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Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'
