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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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
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I'd like to stand up in those classes and announce to the world that I'm too busy to be Irish or Catholic or anything else, that I'm working day and night to make a living, trying to read books for my courses and falling asleep in the library ....
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I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.
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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.
