Amanda Donohoe Quotes
'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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Me, I don't need money.
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Never on any golf course have I been approached by a policeman who said, 'Lady, you can't play with an ordinary golf ball. You're movie star. You'll have to use a coconut for a ball.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.
