Peter Billingsley Quotes
I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.
Peter Billingsley
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
Laura Linney
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
Zhang Zhidong
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
Teddy Sears
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
Oscar Isaac
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
Jacky Ido
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Marat Safin
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
Wayne Brady
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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
George Ade
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too.
Matt de la Pena
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Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.
James Fenton
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'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).
John Singer Sargent
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
Felicity Huffman
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I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.
Peter Billingsley
