Peter Riegert Quotes
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
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The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
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I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are.
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The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and is important to someone. Invariably, people will give their love, respect, and attention to the person who fills that need. Consideration for others generally reflects faith in self and faith in others.
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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
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I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
