Amanda Burton Quotes

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

Amanda Burton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 8, 1957

Topics

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I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

Joe R. Lansdale

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Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Jeremy Irons

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Even if it's a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly.

Michael Bastian

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We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.

Stephen Pagliuca

SomeoneWashingtonBuildNeedGround

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

GoodExperienceThinkYouSayTrash

Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?

Janet Yellen

WorkPeopleWhyOutsideAlwaysUp

I think it's sick that we even post pictures of people in their post-baby bodies or talk about it. It upsets me so much because not only does it make a woman feel bad if she hasn't lost all their baby weight, it's not realistic.

Christina Applegate

WomanPeopleMeBabySickThink

America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

Cory Booker

PeopleRichAmericaEnoughGrowing

Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.

Connie Britton

SometimesWantNosePunchFavorite

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

Bonnie Blair

HopeBestI CanPersonalSatisfied

Sports were never my thing.

Brad Garrett

SportsNeverWereThing

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

Winona Ryder

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