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I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.' — Amanda Peet

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other. — Amanda Peet

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett. — Amanda Peet

You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his. — Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind. — Mal Peet

We should just bomb them back to the Stone Age. — Mal Peet

'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition. — Mal Peet

As much use as tits on a fish. — Mal Peet

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting. — Mal Peet

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me. — Bill Peet

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead? — Mal Peet

Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy. — Mal Peet

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. — Mal Peet

It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close to the button. — Mal Peet

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book. — Mal Peet

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces. — Mal Peet

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff. — Mal Peet

The view from here was lovely, constant, and never the same. Somehow, it was always sympathetic to his mood. — Mal Peet

But I get ahead of myself, which is nearly as bad as getting Above Myself. — Mal Peet

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar. — Mal Peet

Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to. — Mal Peet

I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good. — Amanda Peet

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer — Mal Peet

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts. — Mal Peet

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film. — Mal Peet

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat. — Amanda Peet

Writing is a form of licensed madness. — Mal Peet

I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty. — Amanda Peet

The screen filled with a pure and simple blue in which a few black pixels floated. — Mal Peet

instead of being in history he was in love — Mal Peet

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into. — Amanda Peet

If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love. — Amanda Peet

I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor. — Amanda Peet

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre. — Mal Peet

I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties. — Peter Dinklage

Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians! — Mal Peet

Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase 'depths of despair'. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience. — Mal Peet

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write. — Mal Peet

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

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past. — Mal Peet

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel. — Amanda Peet

Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap. — Mal Peet

I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious. — Amanda Peet

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching. — Bill Peet

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'. — Amanda Peet

I would do a musical, but I can't sing. — Amanda Peet

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes. — Mal Peet

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. — Amanda Peet

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. — Mal Peet

Thank God in an atheist. — Mal Peet

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore. — Amanda Peet

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism. — Amanda Peet

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all. — Mal Peet

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle. — Amanda Peet

I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children. — Amanda Peet

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows. — Bill Peet

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling. — Bill Peet

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre. — Mal Peet

I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school. — Mal Peet

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other. — Amanda Peet

I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead. — Mal Peet

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences. — Mal Peet

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark. — Mal Peet

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there. — Mal Peet

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever. — Mal Peet

If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy. — Amanda Peet

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role. — Amanda Peet

If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.' — Mal Peet

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room. — Amanda Peet

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack. — Amanda Peet

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others ... It's a good metaphor for parenting — Amanda Peet

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. — Mal Peet

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors. — Amanda Peet

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone! — Amanda Peet

'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought. — Mal Peet

I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are. — Amanda Peet

Fluke me, Murdstone. — Mal Peet

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it. — Amanda Peet

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. — Mal Peet

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes. — Amanda Peet

Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names. — Mal Peet