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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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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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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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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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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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I've always had a more classic approach to style as opposed to uber-trendy. Having said that, I do like to have a bit of an edge, and I tend to be more daring when it comes to accessories - in particular, shoes and bags.
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I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.
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I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
