Peter Riegert Quotes
I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I love all things Christmas.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
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Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
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When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.
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Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
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I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.
