Russell Peters Quotes
I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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There is no better designer than nature.
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[Bob] Corker was an early endorser.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.
