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To Golriz
I mean, what makes me angry about this whole script war was the total hypocrisy. If you're saying that my enemies demonised you for...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 27, 20242 min read
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re: my weed use
Look, if you're not going to have a real conversation about it, and you're totally unwilling to admit that I'm able to do my professional...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 25, 20241 min read
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DeviantArt
Well, again, it's bloody insulting that every dark-haired woman is 'obviously' Chloe. Regarding that one of the lady pointing at the...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 24, 20241 min read
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To my 'allies' that are picking on me
Michelle: VUW needs to accept that if they pursue this further, I will defeat them in court. Thanks to the Carmen book theatrics and...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 23, 20241 min read
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To Ms. Whanau
Tory, the answer is that I was absolutely right to call you out. You had absolutely no business trying to force me to produce a picture....
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 23, 20242 min read
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To Sally Jane Norman
In my personal opinion, your decisions are the reason why the NZSM is in serious danger of being shut down. You're an elitist that has no...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 22, 20243 min read
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My feud
Well, it wasn't my choice to turn my MeToo moment into a feud, and that's an instance where my so-called friends need to do some...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 22, 20241 min read
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Feeling guilty
I'm not saying that I don't have a bit of a feeling of being picked-on, or that I don't suffer from having excessive guilt. It's valid to...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 21, 20242 min read
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'Please be on stage'
No. Absolutely not, under no circumstances. I'm writing an opera, and I highly doubt that Luke is ever asked to portray a role, let alone...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 21, 20241 min read
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'When I was male'
More like when I wasn't out. Like, I've known what I am for most of my life. Plus everyone else probably suspected.
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 21, 20241 min read
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first impressions
Are notoriously difficult to fix, and that misperception regarding I Got Lost In Her Arms pretty much set the tone for all this 'Amanda's...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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'just go play more guitar'
Look, if you've been paying attention, then you'd have grasped that the elite music culture that I grew up in is actually the reason that...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20242 min read
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20240 min read
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The Perfumed Garden
NZ Opera is going to do it my way, or they're not going to get to do it at all. That's what I get to say as a public figure that they...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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Am I like Mike King?
Honestly, the best way to work on my paranoias is to talk to me. I often call up my Mum when I'm paranoid, but she's away atm. But I'd...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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Poesia dimenticato
I caught you as you fell into the ocean. Limitless motion From the waves Buffeted our love Above the pit of despair, beyond all worry...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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Porn world
Well, the first place that I twigged that real people were stalking me was BDSMLR, so I left and went back to my old method of typing...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20242 min read
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I liked some of Chloe's stories because I thought she wasn't doing very well mentally.
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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VUW's 'sting' in 2023
Well, I'm going to be very blunt now. I spent at least a half-hour talking to Elliot Vaughan while Salina listened from a comfortable...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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To the Press Gallery
Do you guys have all this shit that I've got re: back channels and staffers attempting to edit your stories as you cut them? If you do,...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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