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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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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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 don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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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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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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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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You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
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I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.
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I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
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When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
