Amanda Peet Quotes

I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.

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• I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

  

  Lance Loud
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Gay

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Start
  • Down
  • Size

• When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Heart
  • Care
  • Enjoy

• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Work
  • Home
  • Like

• The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fear
  • Air
  • Enough

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Fire
  • Lead
  • Lit

• You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Children
  • Think

• Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Process

• When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Talk

• In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Important
  • Women
  • Political

• As a rule people don’t think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Funny

• And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Fear
  • Bubbles

• Among their members were some of the wealthiest individuals in the world; between them, fortunes sufficient to trade in nations. None of the seven had a name that would have meant anything to the hoi polloi-they were, like the truly mighty, anonymously great.

  

  Clive Barker
  • World
  • Great

• The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

  

  Ann Landers
  • Success

• Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Country

• General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Character

• I find that the people who don't eat as much candy are really into heavy protein, like steak. I don't eat that.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • People
  • Candy

• Medieval corporations owned property, and they often engaged in complex financial arrangements, but in no case were they profit-seeking enterprises in the modern sense.

  

  David Graeber
  • Financial

• I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.

  

  Amanda Peet