Peter Marshall Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
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The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
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Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
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The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
