Peter Cook Quotes
The leg division, Mr Spiggot. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg, it's a lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw it come in. I said, 'that's a lovely leg for the role'. I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is - neither have you. You fall down on your left.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
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You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.
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The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a little rock and a little pop.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
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It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
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The leg division, Mr Spiggot. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg, it's a lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw it come in. I said, 'that's a lovely leg for the role'. I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is - neither have you. You fall down on your left.
