Peter Billingsley Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.
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I'm very, very blessed.
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There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
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A lot of people don't like child actors.
