Peter O'Toole Quotes
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I don't eat sugar. I eat fruit.
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters
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I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.
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Claude Debussy's 'Children's Corner' is a suite with six movements just for piano. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Alfred Cartot's versions are amazing, but my favorite is Menininha Lobo's. Her version was done when she was an old lady - and you can hear it.
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Beatles, women and children first!
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
