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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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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 love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
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What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
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Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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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.
