Peter Falk Quotes
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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I had a buddy of mine call up the other day, all upset 'cause he slept with his third cousin. And I'm like, 'Man, if it upsets you that much, quit countin' them!'
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If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
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I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
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Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.
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I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.
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A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.
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You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.
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The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
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I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple personalities. But I don't write to make an argument on behalf of any of the characters, or to prove anything about a character. I think that's important that I be serving the story first and not my own point of view.
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I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
