Peter Sarsgaard Quotes
If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.
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I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
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On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.
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It's not important to me... people will see my films if they want to. Also, I cannot deal with so many things, I have bandwidth only for that much.
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And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.
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Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.
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If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
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A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone.
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I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
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If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
