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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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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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 don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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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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The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
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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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To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.
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To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
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I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
