Peter Billingsley Quotes
When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me Peter. Call me Pete.' I just figured you evolve naturally, and you'll be recognized for what your successes are.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.
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I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barca - and for everyone in football.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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I consider myself black.
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You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.
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In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.
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I love listening to classical music.
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Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.
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'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.
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I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.
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I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.
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Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.
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You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.
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For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.
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A lot of times, you're interacting with people for whom you're one of the very few veterans that they've met or had a lot of interactions with, and there's a temptation for you to feel like you can pontificate about what the experience was or what it meant, and that leads to a lot of nonsense.
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There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
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All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
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When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me Peter. Call me Pete.' I just figured you evolve naturally, and you'll be recognized for what your successes are.
