Peter Coyote Quotes
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
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Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
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In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.
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Pubs would be number one. And black cabs and cabbies - moody cabbies always crack me up. And the other thing I love is the parks: the parks around London don't get enough airtime - I think they're sensational, and when spring hits, the first thing I'll do is go to the park.
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It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
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'House of Cards' was amazing to work on. I couldn't believe I landed there.
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If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'
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A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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In New York - not to say New York isn't a competitive place - but there's much more of a sense of, we're all here and some of us are up and some of us are down and some of us are in the middle, but we have a longer view of history and how it works, rather than just this week.
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
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Well," Claire said, "at least we have tacos. Everything goes better with tacos.
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The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
