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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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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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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I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.
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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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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
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I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'
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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.
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I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
