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.
Harlan Coben
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
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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?
Park Shin-hye
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
Hannah Simone
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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.
Yelawolf
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe
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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.
Imelda May
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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.
Ice T
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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.
Patricia Ireland
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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!
Mackenzie Astin
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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.
J. Lee Thompson
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Major Owens
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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
Oscar Wilde
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Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.
Adrienne Mayor
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There is possibility in every difficulty.
Albert Einstein
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The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.
John Shelby Spong
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The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Actors know one thing: If you're left just with words, you're in trouble.
Peter Falk