Peter Finch Quotes
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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 have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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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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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Birth was the death of him.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work.
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If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.
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The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
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I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
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I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.
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If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.
