Peter O'Toole Quotes
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Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.
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Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.
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My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
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One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan but it will not be possible to replace him.
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The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
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Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
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The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
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Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.
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Non-cooperation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
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If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting area, and focuses it on a receiver. An antenna is normally designed to maximize its response in the direction in which it is pointed and minimize its response in other directions.
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I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.
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But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
