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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Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.
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US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.
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To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.
