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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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'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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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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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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The only time you ever hurt me is when you leave me.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
