Peter Billingsley Quotes
You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.
Quotes to Explore
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Winning excuses everything.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
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Well, if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn't play like Wynton.
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.
