Peter O'Toole Quotes
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.
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I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
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No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.
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There's a remedy for everything except death.
