Mal Peet Quotes
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don't think I should try to make a career out of it.
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There's nothing as real as money.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
