Amanda Hocking Quotes

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

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• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

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• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

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• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

  

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• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

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• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

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• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  

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• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

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• We run to win, not just to be in the race.

  

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• I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

  

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• Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

  

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• At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

  

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• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

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• The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

  

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• You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

  

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• Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

  

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• I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

  

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• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  

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• In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

  

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• There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong.

  

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• Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

  

  Amanda Hocking
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