Amanda Lindhout Quotes
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
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I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.
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Creativity for me is religious.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.Will you ever feel ok?
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You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.
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I just don't like to talk about my personal success against somebody.
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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
