Peter Riegert Quotes
I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.
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'Instead of change, please give me gun so i can shoot you.' She is soft-spoken but short and full of rage lately, like her whole life.
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It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.
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I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
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I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
