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 am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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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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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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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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For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.
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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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Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
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Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.