Amanda McBroom Quotes
I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.
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Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.
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Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.
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Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.
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I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.
