Amanda Lindhout Quotes
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.
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We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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My brothers live in Australia and don't really know about Bollywood.
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Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
