Peter Coyote Quotes
I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
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You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.
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I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
