Amanda Peet Quotes
If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
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In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
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I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
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Gratitude is heaven itself.
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Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.
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If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
