Peter Weller Quotes
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
Ford Frick
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'I’m from out of town,' he said breezily. This was true. He’d never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
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I prefer the path of peace over war.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.
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Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
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When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.
