Elizabeth Peyton Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi – finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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I climb mountains.
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Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.
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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
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When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of the solution, allow somebody that.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.
