Peter Jurasik Quotes
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.
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When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.
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When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
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Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
