Amanda Tapping Quotes
I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.
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One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
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My parents were hippies.
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
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Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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The eventual survival of the tradition is ultimately not at stake.
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I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.
