Peter O'Toole Quotes
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
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I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.
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Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
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I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
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I try to be present in the moment and to be authentic, and to listen.
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I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
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You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.
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I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.
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Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.
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I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.
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Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.
