Peter O'Toole Quotes
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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Of course I get hurt.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.
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If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping. Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?
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I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
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There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.
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It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
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Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
