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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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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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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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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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 was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.
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In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.
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I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
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Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.
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A lot of people don't like child actors.
