William Petersen Quotes

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

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• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Write
  • Most

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Movie

• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Women
  • America

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Produce

• Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Way
  • Me

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

  Gail Devers
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Effort

• Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Cool
  • Chance

• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

• I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Honesty
  • Prove

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• When I think about whether I want to take a job, I don't just think about whether it's technically interesting, although I do consider that. I also consider the question of whether it's good for the world.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Jobs

• I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Comedy

• I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

  

  William Petersen
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