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I am so proud to be a Canadian. Amanda Lindhout

Proud Am Canadian

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. Amanda Lindhout

Space Because Enclosed Get Afraid

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me. Amanda Lindhout

Me Travel Vital Because Getting Plane Hard

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence. Amanda Lindhout

Confidence Change Women Seen Gain Lives Watched

I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me? Amanda Marshall

Me Some Had Stuff Anyone Happen Interesting Ask Why

I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways. Amanda Marshall

Me Increasingly Our Ways Signing Columbia Clear Know Became Deal Go Did After Them Separate Agreed Actually

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way. Amanda Plummer

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods. Amanda Plummer

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Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out. Amanda Tapping

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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

Women Wonderful Strong Girl Television Rarely Cast Part Since Most Goofy Am Doing Very Intelligent Get Which Ever Started

I'm sick of the treadmill. Andrea Martin

Sick Treadmill

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people. Andrea Martin

Family People Country Lose Everything Armenian Understand Am Against

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better. Andrea Martin

Life Love Better Free My Life Kind Structure Days Like Know Knowing Pragmatic Going Just Where Orderly Reasons Routine Night

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics. Andrea Martin

Time People Space Difficult Everybody Nine Kinder Had Been Did Loved Worked Really Episode Deep Deep Space Thing Here Difficult Time

I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope. Andrea Martin

Hope Will Back Stayed Could Go Sitcoms Done Awhile

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. Andrea Martin

Sets Unpredictability Like Around Sitting

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer. Andrea Martin

Character Me History Change Perception Own Earth States Out Kind Would My Own Could Performer Accomplish Role The History Of If I Could Really Help Grounded Who United Believed United States Play

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer. Andrea Martin

Summer Out Stock Prefer Really Started

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. Andrea Martin

You Down Difficult Calls Course Anything Personally Turn Mike

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials. Andrea Martin

Out Lot Canada Commercials Did Started

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict. Andrea Roth

Happy Conflict First Drama Secondly Relationships Television Out Would About Sadly Know First Of All How Were Role Role Models Models Who Many Shows Functional Watch

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada. Andrew Nikiforuk

Changed Fur Way Trade Tar Canada Same Sands

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter. Andrew Nikiforuk

Matter Economics Energy Think Though About Allowed Oil Us

What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric. Andrew Nikiforuk

Energy Incredibly Wisely Know How Barbaric Really Use Slavery

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