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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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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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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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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I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
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My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
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You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
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Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.
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I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.
