Peter Falk Quotes
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
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I don't look too far ahead.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
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Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
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I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
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I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.
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I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
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I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
