Jake Peavy Quotes
If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Pluto is the new Mars.
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I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
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People forget that YouTube is the second-largest search site on the Web. It just tells you the power of how many people live on YouTube.
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
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If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.
