Peter Coyote Quotes
My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.
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Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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They could care less about the public. The public comes in third. Number one is keeping their power. Number two are the special interests, the people footing the bill. Finally, the public good might be third - if they can profit from it. If there's no profit, they could care less.
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To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
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My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
