Peter Falk Quotes
Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I don't study; I create.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.
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Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.
