Amanda Peet Quotes
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.
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There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
