Ellis Peters Quotes
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
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The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.
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Assaults by fanatics on our safety... does not justify assaults by the government on our freedom!
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It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
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Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.
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Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
