Peter Cullen Quotes
As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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National unity is the basis of national security. To deny the legislature the right to select appropriate means for its attainment presents a totally different order of problem from that of the propriety of subordinating the possible ugliness of littered streets to the free expression opinion through handbills.
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When I go to the movies, I like to see something different.
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As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.
