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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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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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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For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.
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Being in a fresh place, fresh faces, fresh organization, really helped that out. It helped me concentrate on pitching.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
