Peter O'Toole Quotes
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
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The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe I shouldn't have done that. But to make the song sound impenetrable because I thought it was a little too vulnerable, I tried to layer it in noise.
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A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
