Peter Falk Quotes
I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.
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I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.
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I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.
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I grew up around guitar players.
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I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
