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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My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.
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The physical part was one thing. Whatever - I broke my face; that'll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don't know how to experience stuff like that. You don't have any control over it, either. It's just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.
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The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.
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Tell God not to go away. I'll be back in a minute.
