Peter O'Toole Quotes
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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[Diversity] is the future. You can't stop it. It's going where it's going, so I choose to be with the future.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.
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I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
