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 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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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
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Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.
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I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
