Amanda Lindhout Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.
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I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
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What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.
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Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
