Amanda Peterson Quotes
You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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I'm very open-minded.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
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'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.
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In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.
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When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.
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You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
