Amanda Harlech Quotes
I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.
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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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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I like being unconventional.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.
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I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.
