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.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Being
  • Celebrity
  • Talk

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Theory
  • Worth

• 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.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Want

• I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Used

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Faith
  • Principles
  • Islam

• I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Home
  • Girl

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• Me, I don't need money.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Money
  • Me
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Golf

• Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

  

  Livy
  • Truth

• I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Dance

• I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Sports

• Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It's steady work. It's a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way... where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.

  

  Kelly Rowan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

  

  Alice Kahn
  • Written
  • Way Of Life

• Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Power
  • Logic

• To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Sun

• My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Succeed
  • Complicated

• 'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

  

  Amanda Donohoe