Amanda Peet Quotes

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

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• You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

  

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• I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

  

  Amanda Peet
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