Peter Coyote Quotes
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I've always been a huge Eric Church fan. I'll never forget being in college listening to his first album and how much it inspired to write my own music.
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My dad worked for a theatre company that was two minutes away from my primary school, so I'd just walk there after school and watch the rehearsals. I think that's probably when I fell in love with acting and telling stories.
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The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
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God…is the center of all selves.
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I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.
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It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
