Amanda Schull Quotes
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.
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There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.
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The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.
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I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.
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I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.
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Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
