Amanda Peet quote: "I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."

I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really wel...
AMANDA PEET

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.
AMANDA PEET

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.
AMANDA PEET

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I rea...
AMANDA PEET

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not...
AMANDA PEET

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
AMANDA PEET

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of...
AMANDA PEET

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feelin...
AMANDA PEET

The Amityville Horror.
AMANDA PEET

My agent was like, 'Oh my God, you're going to love her,'
AMANDA PEET

A Lot Like Love
AMANDA PEET

When I read The Whole Nine Yards I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role
AMANDA PEET

I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.
AMANDA PEET

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose ...
AMANDA PEET

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the l...
AMANDA PEET

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!
AMANDA PEET

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
AMANDA PEET

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
AMANDA PEET

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each...
AMANDA PEET

I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my ...
AMANDA PEET

I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I&#...
AMANDA PEET

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
MAL PEET

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journ...
MAL PEET

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know....
MAL PEET

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama,...
MAL PEET

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
MAL PEET

Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is ha...
MAL PEET

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorat...
MAL PEET

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and the...
MAL PEET

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
MAL PEET

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of...
MAL PEET

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
MAL PEET

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also th...
MAL PEET

If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualificati...
MAL PEET

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you...
MAL PEET

The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The ...
MAL PEET

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult a...
MAL PEET

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
MAL PEET

I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000...
MAL PEET

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
MAL PEET

History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patientl...
MAL PEET

Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and ...
MAL PEET

Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sittin...
MAL PEET

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary t...
MAL PEET

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.
MAL PEET

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subv...
MAL PEET

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in ...
MAL PEET

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the p...
MAL PEET

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
MAL PEET

She plays the whole game, she's always moving forward and she's opportunistic in front of the goal. ...
SUE PEET

Writing is a form of licensed madness.
MAL PEET

My goalkeeper did a good job tonight.
SUSAN PEET

I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading a...
MAL PEET

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.
MAL PEET

It wasn't far below the very strong second quarter, so that's probably the most pleasing part. They ...
MICHAEL PEET

the only true way to prove that you have lost your inner child is if you don't laugh when you hear t...
AMANDA

happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone else can see it but only you can feel the warmth.
AMANDA

This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.
AMANDA BYNES

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin...
AMANDA FULLER

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their...
AMANDA LINDHOUT

Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the gene...
AMANDA TAPPING

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.
AMANDA SEYFRIED

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.
AMANDA HOLDEN

We found Trent and pulled him off the leggy girl. “Trent, it’s time to get home before your pare...
AMANDA KELLY

What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? H...
AMANDA GRACE

I shortened my name to Cat for a reason – as in Cataclysm.
AMANDA BOUCHET

I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only...
AMANDA BOUCHET

But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old a...
AMANDA CRAIG

You're weird,' he says.
Despite everythin, I smile. 'You're always saying that, but in fact, yo...
AMANDA MACIEL

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just ...
AMANDA BRADLEY

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
AMANDA HEGGS

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS

When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.
AMANDA HOCKING

He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflec...
AMANDA HOCKING

That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me.
AMANDA HOCKING

God is good, but the devil is not so bad to those he likes,
AMANDA HOCKING

Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.
AMANDA HOCKING

You should get married more often," Loki teased. "It makes you feisty.
AMANDA HOCKING

I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.
AMANDA HOCKING

What I told you before is still true. I want to know that when you're with me, it's because you want...
AMANDA HOCKING

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could...
AMANDA HOCKING

He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
AMANDA HOCKING

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.
AMANDA HARLECH

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no d...
AMANDA CREW

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what wou...
AMANDA SCHULL

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater ...
AMANDA PLUMMER

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I...
AMANDA HOLDEN

Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for mys...
AMANDA BORDEN

Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'
AMANDA SEYFRIED

I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical...
AMANDA GIASSON

I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling ...
AMANDA HARLECH

The dangerous plant did not flower in every generation, they said.
AMANDA QUICK

There's no denying that Christy Turlington looks good in everything, but it's especially gre...
AMANDA HEARST

I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.
AMANDA BYNES

I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs...
AMANDA SEYFRIED

Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends wh...
AMANDA BYNES

The idea having the policies be by suite was actually an idea that was developed through the student...
AMANDA GUNTER

The suites could either agree to keep (their policy) with the university's policy for the weeknights...
AMANDA GUNTER

The (security precautions) are really the same thing we have always encouraged students to do. If th...
AMANDA GUNTER

The visitation policy hasn't changed (in the books). There is a policy on the books that visitation ...
AMANDA GUNTER

One of the questions on (the survey) dealt with last year's visitation policy. A lot of students put...
AMANDA GUNTER

We have an understanding with our parents - schoolwork can't slack. Academics are definitely somethi...
AMANDA GONSALVES

We didn't play our best game. They played better than us. We didn't come out as strong as they did. ...
AMANDA GONSALVES

We did a lot better towards the end of the season when we won seven of eight. We know where each oth...
AMANDA GONSALVES

I think we can win the rest of the games on our schedule. We're playing really well right now, and o...
AMANDA GONSALVES

It's been great having my sister on the floor with me these past two years.
AMANDA GONSALVES

She took so much pressure off us as freshman and sophomores. She was really the focus of the offense...
AMANDA GONSALVES

The only down point was that we didn't get to beat T-Town to go to state. But beggars couldn't be ch...
AMANDA GLAZEBROOK

I have had a nice 10 years. I will see what happens from here. I may take a year off. I have had inf...
AMANDA GLAZEBROOK

I expect big things out of next year's group. Unfortunately, I won't be a part of it. Whoever gets i...
AMANDA GLAZEBROOK

I appreciate all the support the people in the community and friends and coaches in the area have sh...
AMANDA GLAZEBROOK

Some days it's really bad and others not so bad.
AMANDA GIDEON

I think he's a legitimately good player.
AMANDA GIDEON

There's still a lot of skill involved.
AMANDA GIDEON

He's doing great. He's hired.
AMANDA GIDEON

Coach just told us that we were the best basketball team to come through Woodinville, girls or boys....
AMANDA FLEISCHMAN

We all look to her.
AMANDA FLEISCHMAN

She's so smart. I would not want anyone else as a point guard. She knows when to put it in the hoop ...
AMANDA FLEISCHMAN

It's playoffs, and there was a little bitter taste in our mouths (from last season).
AMANDA FLEISCHMAN

All year long the second half has been ours. We went into locker room knowing what we were doing wro...
AMANDA FLEISCHMAN

She is my helper. Being close to their age, she is an inspiration to the students. They see what she...
AMANDA DRIEVER

They love it. The ponies and the residents.
AMANDA DRIEVER

In order for us to have these horses we needed additional income. We started a carriage business sev...
AMANDA DRIEVER

Last year I added a week and filled it. If I need to add more weeks this summer, I won't mind at all...
AMANDA DRIEVER

Angel was the epitome of style and grace. She had a wonderful sense of humor, a giving spirit andÃ�...
AMANDA DAVIS

I have no idea what to think right now. I don't want to believe that she is gone. It seems so unreal...
AMANDA DAVIS

In our last conversation, Angel told me that she was exhausted but was going to celebrate her co-wor...
AMANDA DAVIS

This week, we were supposed to be ordering her graduation announcements and sending her resume to co...
AMANDA DAVIS

There's so much work to be done down here, I don't think there'll ever be too many people.
AMANDA DAVIS

I had more confidence in myself. The first game, I had jitters.
AMANDA DAVIS

There are people in our community writing poetry. This brings it down home. Your friend next door co...
AMANDA CUNNINGHAM

Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.
AMANDA CUNNINGHAM

I write a lot about the Bible and integrate my faith into my poems.
AMANDA CUNNINGHAM

If I am serving a lot of courses or side dishes, I usually serve 1/2 hen per person. They are easy t...
AMANDA CUNNINGHAM

We are encouraging people who write poetry or don't write poetry to get their work out there. We wan...
AMANDA CUNNINGHAM

Rooms are changing. Work is getting harder and there is more pain than there used to be in doing the...
AMANDA COOPER

I was unaware they had set the preliminary hearing, but the district attorney's office has been in c...
AMANDA COOPER

We'll be traveling on behalf of other Democratic governors as needed and as invited.
AMANDA COOPER

They can use these skills for anything, whether they farm or not.
AMANDA COOPER

It was never on his schedule, and I don't know how that (information) got out there. His (Richardson...
AMANDA COOPER

Obviously it does raise more attention and get more coverage because it's New Hampshire.
AMANDA COOPER

I'll expect a lot more than someone picking out a suspect because of what they 'feel' might be the a...
AMANDA CLARK

I figured they could use as much as we can give.
AMANDA CLARK

That's how we met all of our neighbors.
AMANDA CLARK

The one we like is $16,000,
AMANDA CLARK

This is my great first mini-goal,
AMANDA CLARK

They were so good, ... They ordered it in June and installed it by the end of July, which was amazin...
AMANDA CLARK

I remember people saying that they brought cousins or people to the set and they had no idea that wa...
AMANDA BYNES

Everybody wants to be liked, fit in and make people laugh. I think we're not that different.
AMANDA BYNES

I know who I am supposed to be with. I'm just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I...
AMANDA BYNES

Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet...
AMANDA BYNES

That always baffles me. I think young girls look up to people who are older than they are, because y...
AMANDA BYNES

I think that the most important lesson is to be yourself, and that you can't change yourself for any...
AMANDA BYNES

I'm the type of person who believes that everything happens for a reason and at the time that it's s...
AMANDA BYNES

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you wan...
AMANDA BYNES

I like the dress-up part. In real life, I'm into sweats and never like that, but I do like to get dr...
AMANDA BYNES

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper a...
AMANDA BYNES

These have stuff to keep you going for three days.
AMANDA BUTLER

It was an awesome game. It's no question we lost to a team that deserves to be in the NCAA Tournamen...
AMANDA BUTLER

But it did take them a few weeks to come get it. We just left it in the driveway and one day it was ...
AMANDA BUTLER

It is truly hard to capture what the four seniors have meant not only to our program but to this ath...
AMANDA BUTLER

A lot of times in your first head-coaching job, you?re starting with a rebuilding program, but this ...
AMANDA BUTLER

They?re an outstanding team. I have a lot of respect for them. Shoot, they won 24 games. ... That fr...
AMANDA BUTLER

They know it's not a sickness they can get.
AMANDA BUTLER

They think it's just about money for Morgan. It's not about the party. It's about Morgan.
AMANDA BUTLER

Elena pitched a great game. We can't take anything away from her tonight. We just didn't make the ad...
AMANDA BUSSELL

I think they are excited right now, because they have just had two wins, and coming off of that is p...
AMANDA BUSSELL

I think we are prepared for Elena. We've been practicing her different pitches, and a lot of my girl...
AMANDA BUSSELL

Tonight we didn't get the big hit and we had too many errors. We have to execute at the plate and on...
AMANDA BUSSELL

This year's team has more unity and cohesiveness than teams in the past, and they work just as well ...
AMANDA BUSSELL

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve d...
AMANDA BURTON

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate g...
AMANDA BURTON

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock tha...
AMANDA BURTON

I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never...
AMANDA BURTON

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
AMANDA BURTON

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of ...
AMANDA BURTON

We're doing everything we can to meet that goal.
AMANDA BROWN

A lot of us feel like it's not really an end because none of us are leaving. It's kind of a new begi...
AMANDA BROWN

It's been our motto all year to make it to the NCAA Tournament. That's what we're working on every d...
AMANDA BROWN

We worked a lot on that type of thing in practice. We worked on slips and worked on the out of bound...
AMANDA BROWN

In a small community like the Sault it's sometimes hard to find each other.
AMANDA ZUKE

There's a lot of fear. Sometimes that old collection of myths and stories about what a Pagan is just...
AMANDA ZUKE

It's an opportunity for local and area Pagans to get together with each other. It's an opportunity t...
AMANDA ZUKE

Paganism as it's evolving today is really a living tradition.
AMANDA ZUKE

(Pella) was double-teaming me - they knew who I was - and I was just trying to fight through it and ...
AMANDA ZIMMERMAN

We've been practicing for a week so it's kind of getting old and we just want to play again. We just...
AMANDA ZIMMERMAN

Coach said we needed to work on our inside game and stop shooting outside when our shots weren't fal...
AMANDA ZIMMERMAN

Actually, this was one of my better defensive games of the season.
AMANDA ZIMMERMAN

Now we have a big target on our backs, so every body will be after us. Nothing's really different fo...
AMANDA ZIMMERMAN

A few games it was difficult because he expects a lot out of me, but it was really great that he got...
AMANDA WOLKE

I feel like I was in better shape this year than I was last year. I was getting more confident at th...
AMANDA WOLKE

A lot of it (getting the steals) was someone else would put pressure on the ball which would make it...
AMANDA WOLKE

A lot of times if it was close to bonus Terry would just tell me to hold on to the ball or if it was...
AMANDA WOLKE

I thought it would last for three games and then I would stop doing that. My team helped me out a lo...
AMANDA WOLKE

Never in my dreams did I expect a season like this. I am still a little shocked.
AMANDA WOLKE

I'm so excited, ... It's so rewarding after so many nationals and after coming back from Worlds and ...
AMANDA WEIR

I came into this meet knowing I had a shot at winning the 100 and 50. That was my goal, so that's wh...
AMANDA WEIR

Faster than you can blink, I guess.
AMANDA WEIR

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

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I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

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