Peter Coyote Quotes

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Peter Coyote

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• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Fast

• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Find

• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Stress

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Legacy

• Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Like
  • Anonymity
  • Umbrella

• Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Actually
  • Older

• When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Race
  • Anticipation

• Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Directing

• If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Successful
  • Look
  • Management

• One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Reasons
  • Pretend

• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • War
  • Destruction

• Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Me
  • Suffering

• It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Beginning

• You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • You
  • Opinion

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• I don’t know that doom is a very nice word. It does suggest, I think, shuddering and cold sweat. There was none of that, though, about Coco’s welcome to it when it opened my front door and walked in, nor can it be fairly said that there was any of it about mine. True I had a feeling, unusual so soon after breakfast, that I was in the hands of God, but otherwise I wasn’t aware of any particular discomfort. Nor did I remember, till later, that the only other time in my life I had had this feeling was when I was dressing to go to the party in Italy at which I met my first husband. It is a sinking feeling. Perhaps husbands have never altogether agreed with me.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • I Remember
  • Sweat
  • Doom

• When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • You
  • Look
  • Fancy

• You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

  

  Brett Hoebel
  • Practice
  • Habit
  • Fitness

• The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

  

  Peter Coyote