Peter O'Toole Quotes
It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.
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Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined
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We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
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I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
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The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.
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Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
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Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.
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New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.
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So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
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I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.
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I feel like I’ve had nine lives.
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Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.
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It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
