Peter Cullen Quotes
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.
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My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.
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Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
