Peter Riegert Quotes
It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.
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Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
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It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.
