Peter Marino Quotes
We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.
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People take things so seriously.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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We are all terminal.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
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People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
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George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.
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We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.
