Peter Uihlein Quotes

I've never really been somebody who likes to hit it straight. That's just never been my forte, I guess.

Peter Uihlein

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• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Passion

• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Writing
  • True
  • Break

• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • You
  • Things
  • Connections

• We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Political
  • Charity
  • Tax

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Different
  • Free

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Whenever I Google for clothes, I always look at what Angelina Jolie is wearing. I love Sienna Miller, and I really like Rihanna's style, too. There's the edgy girl, classy girl, and the Bohemian chic girl. I guess I'm all of that combined into one.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Style

• My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Try

• I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Working
  • Improv
  • Excite

• Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Listen

• I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • I Believe

• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Childhood

• My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Problem
  • Diet
  • Observation

• I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Theater

• Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Aunt

• Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Rest
  • Destructive

• These are some of my awards - an Ivor Novello, a Variety Club Silver Heart, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. I also have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a street named after me in Brooklyn where I used to live.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Star

• Painting: Once upon a time a painting was a two-dimensional representation; now it is anything its author thinks is appropriate.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Painting
  • Author

• I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Way
  • Understanding

• I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Look

• I've never really been somebody who likes to hit it straight. That's just never been my forte, I guess.

  

  Peter Uihlein