Amy Vanderbilt Quotes
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.
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LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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In being more than an exception, part,Though an heroic part, of the commonal. The major abstraction is the commonal, The inanimate, difficult visage.
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I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
