Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
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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.
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Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.
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When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.
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I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.
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I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let them down.
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When young people implode, we judge them rather than saying they need help.
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Life is going to happen to you no matter what weight you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank. No one gets a free pass.
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I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.
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I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.
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I'd like to interview Rita Ora - I think she's really cool.
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I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.
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Glenda Bailey is a woman after my own heart who believes that climbing the career ladder can be overrated, to say the least. After all, why not just go for what you want now?
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As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.
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I went from being able to walk down the street and be ignored to having men whistle at me. I was an insecure young girl, and it felt good to have attention, even though it was inappropriate.
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Portia de Rossi is a gorgeous woman, and I found it incredibly refreshing to discover that she puts very little stock in her appearance, instead preferring to concentrate on what goodness she can put into the world around her - a choice we can all learn from.
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We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.
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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
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Sitting down with the insightful Gabourey Sidibe was a wonderful experience.
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My daughter gave me a whole new perspective.
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I go to the Korean spa when the kids go to bed. It's like I turn my brain off.
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Things are only as important as you make them out to be.
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I'd personally like to see more 'real bodies' in magazines.
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People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.
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I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.