Peter McWilliams Quotes

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Real
  • Story
  • Where

• It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Simple

• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Champ
  • Wallace

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Want
  • Blue

• I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Different
  • Live
  • Action

• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Voice
  • Lucky
  • Rhythm

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Audience
  • Talent
  • Luck

• Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Want
  • Responsibility

• Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!

  

  Orla Brady
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Important
  • Country
  • History

• I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree probably Caesar Baronius: 'The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.'

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Heaven

• Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Soul
  • Today

• In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Live
  • Color

• To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

  

  Peter McWilliams
  • May
  • Mistake