Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes
Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I've been things and seen places.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.
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At the end of the day, basketball is basketball. You've got a whole life to live.
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Live and learn from your mistakes, just get back up and keep fighting.
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Hulk Hogan and I put 43,000 people in the Georgia Dome with three days' notice. I've got a fairly big following in Atlanta.
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Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.
