Peter Gallagher Quotes
My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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You want hard workers. You'd be surprised how many people tell me, 'I don't need to work hard. I'm smart.' Really?
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
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You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
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My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
