Peter Coyote Quotes
The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.
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Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.
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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
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The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.
