Amanda Peet Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I think I need security.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.
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Not his problem. Fewer and fewer things are.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.
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If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
