Peter Cushing Quotes
I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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I'm just a worker.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'
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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
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I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.
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Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
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I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.
