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Amanda Tapping Quotes

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

Amanda Tapping

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 28, 1965

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Women Girl I Am Strong Doing Goofy

Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

Angela Duckworth

Morning Yourself Pain People Giving

I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.

Sophie Monk

Hope End America Australia Talk Up

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

Simon McBurney

Home Culture Born Nothing More Up

I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

Tony Harrison

Love Failure Myself Find Play Said

As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.

Mary Jo White

People Me Reputation Sometimes Get

I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

Loni Love

Myself Want Studying Always Improve

I'm not the rapper that's too cool to tweet and talk to fans.

Logic

Cool Talk Rapper Fans Tweet Too

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor

Music Poetry Making Them

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Denis Waitley

Alone Time You Career Economic Your

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Death Purpose Pain Punishment More

I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.

Peter Mayer

Future Past Think New Dead Need

I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.

Peter Jackson

Movies Reason Joke Make Just Than