Amanda Warren Quotes

Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University make me any different from other actors in film, television, or theatre.

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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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

  

  O. Henry
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Dollar

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Change
  • Stop
  • Air

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Gay

• At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Journey

• In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

  

  Beck
  • Fun
  • Rap
  • Means

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Bad
  • Lose
  • Election

• I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.

  

  Fleur East
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Big

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Love
  • Walk

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • City
  • Start
  • New York

• Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• We tend to become social core groups, whatever our similar interest and background where we came through. It tends to be a filter through which people see themselves. It can be all different ethnicities. They can see themselves as San Franciscans, or Warriors fans. You want to build a tribe of viral advocates for that team.

  

  Peter Guber
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Song
  • Poetry
  • Mirror

• Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University make me any different from other actors in film, television, or theatre.

  

  Amanda Warren
  • Different
  • School
  • Drama