M. Scott Peck Quotes
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
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Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
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By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.
