Peter Billingsley Quotes
I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.
Quotes to Explore
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.
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Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.
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I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
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I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.
