Peter Coyote Quotes
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
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I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
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I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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As you see, the reactions were really reserved from the studios...
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The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
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To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.
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I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
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I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.
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If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
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We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
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I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
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The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
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Thinking back on it, I just really didn't have very many role models to look up to when it came to Asian actresses. And in that way, when I would see an Asian onscreen, it would be a secondary-type thing, and that's kind of how I ended up viewing myself in the world: as secondary.
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We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.
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If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.
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Acting is the way I make my living.
