Peter Coyote Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
-
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
-
Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
-
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
-
I can do whatever I want.
-
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
-
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
-
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
-
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
-
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-
Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
-
I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
-
You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
-
On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy candidate. Off the field, I showed up as a wild kid and grew up.
-
The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
-
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
-
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
-
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
-
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
-
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
-
The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.
-
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.
-
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
-
Writing is something I can do by myself.
