Peter Falk Quotes
If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to 'What turns me on is erotic; what turns you on is pornographic.'
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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
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If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'
