Peter Falk Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.
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Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.
