Peter Finch Quotes
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!
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I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.
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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
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There's no way Ferrari made a car that bad.
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If you want to give it a good go, you've got to make some sacrifices and be as dedicated as you can be. Particularly with 'Doctor Who.' It's two or three hours of line-learning a night.
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Hollywood must have been terrific once.
