Peter S. Beagle Quotes
Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention.

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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
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Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
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People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
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The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
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I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
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The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.
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Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention.