Pete Postlethwaite Quotes
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.Pete Postlethwaite
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
Pat Robertson -
Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
Kate Walsh -
I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
Kate Flannery -
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder -
The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
Yelawolf -
I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
Maddie Ziegler
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. Elrod -
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett -
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger -
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon -
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
Earl Campbell
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
Olivier Theyskens -
I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
Wendy Kopp -
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
Ma Jian -
Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
Felix Dennis -
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
Edgar Wright -
New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
Walter Gropius
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The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.
Leslie Marmon Silko -
On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.
Candice Patton -
Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
Keisha Castle-Hughes -
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
Pete Postlethwaite