Peter Coyote Quotes
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
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It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.
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I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me.
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I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep working, that - maybe that's possible.
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I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.
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We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.
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When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
