Peter Straub Quotes

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Peter Straub

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• I never thought I'd be an actor.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Actor

• I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Way
  • Play
  • Like

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Know
  • Act

• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Character
  • Book

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good
  • Music
  • Value

• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Great
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Way
  • Things
  • Child

• Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Balance

• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Success
  • Single

• You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

  

  Ed Koch
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Me

• A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Style

• I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.

  

  Kirstie Alley

• Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Life
  • Love
  • Check

• I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Travel
  • Path
  • Inspired

• We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Important
  • Theatre

• An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

  

  Peter Straub