Amanda Burton Quotes

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

Amanda Burton

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Author Biography

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

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For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

Jessie Matthews

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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

John Thorn

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You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

Stanley Donen

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The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

Tom Cotton

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Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Ron Dellums

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When I realized that my big dream was going to come true - 'Night Shift' was a success, 'Splash' was a success, I got the job to do 'Cocoon' - suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.

Ron Howard

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I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.

Rowan Atkinson

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If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

Mary Pierce

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Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

Milan Kundera

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Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

Donald E. Graham

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I will always do what's best for the football team.

Brock Osweiler

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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

Anne Lamott

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