Amanda Peet Quotes
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.
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I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.
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The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
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I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.
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The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.
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Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
