Peter Falk Quotes
Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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I'm surprised when the ball doesn't go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.
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I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
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The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
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Every good film is a bit like a dream, when you come away from it. That's what you should aspire to, rather than some social document. I want to create a little world that will stay with the audience.
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Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
