Amanda Holden Quotes

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

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• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Why
  • Often
  • Flaws

• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Small
  • Breathing
  • Charm

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • First
  • Germany
  • Puts

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Want
  • Black
  • Me

• I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Family
  • Myself

• When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • God
  • Friend

• In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • First
  • Prince
  • Tradition

• One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Think
  • Watching

• No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

  

  Barry White
  • Soul
  • Brother
  • Understand

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Art
  • Political
  • Stop

• I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Want
  • Organ

• You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Best
  • Do Your Best

• If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

  

  Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Anticipation

• In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Live
  • Health
  • Wisdom

• I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

  

  Amanda Holden