Amanda Peet Quotes
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
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Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
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I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'
