Peter Sotos Quotes
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
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I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
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I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
