Peter Weller Quotes
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Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
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My weight has always been a struggle for me.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don't, then they are lying.
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I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.
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When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
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Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
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In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.
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A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.
