"I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that."

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Amanda Burton

#Beach Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.”
“I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea. Why don't you write a song called "All Shook Up"?' Two days later I brought the song in and said, 'Look, man, I did something with it.'”
“I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.”
“Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.”
“Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.”
“Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.”
“To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.”

Source : Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.270, Jazzybee Verlag
“Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.”

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