Peter Cook Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
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It is thy very energy of thoughtWhich keeps thee from thy God.
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The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
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Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto.
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Tell God not to go away. I'll be back in a minute.
